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[Matthew Clark <matthewclark AT inlesserterms.net>]

Quoting Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>:

> Am Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:50:14 -0600
> schrieb Matthew Clark <matthewclark AT inlesserterms.net>:
>
> > I wanted to see if there's anyone out there who's been successful at
> > getting SMGL to run as a wireless bridge.  And to make myself clear,
> > what I mean is to join a wired segment to another wired segment using
> > 802.11.
>
> In the danger of being irrelevant: I didn't bridge two LAN segments, I
> made a bridge on my laptop to bring the Wii console into our local LAN,
> and hence then being routed to the internet.
> I used hostapd - and I guess you are referring to this one, too, as the
> thing that supports mainly prism chips.
> It happens to support Atheros (madwifi) chips, too - that's what I have
> in my Thinkpad.
> I build the bridge with this script:
>
> rmmod ath_pci
> modprobe ath_pci rfkill=0
> wlanconfig ath0 destroy
> wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
> iwpriv ath0 mode 2
> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
> ifconfig ath0 0.0.0.0 up
> brctl addbr br0
> brctl addif br0 eth0
> brctl addif br0 ath0
> ifconfig br0 192.168.0.34
> route add default gw 192.168.0.100
> echo enter to stop...
> read bla
> ifconfig br0 down
> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 down
> ifconfig ath0 0.0.0.0 down
> brctl delif br0 eth0
> brctl delif br0 ath0
> brctl delbr br0
>
> and then start hostapd, which does the WPA2 stuff and actually manages
> the connection from the Wii.
> Not quite sure what would be different in your setup.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas.

Thanks for sharing your experience.  It's always nice to peer into  
another's config files ;)

I bought a Linksys WUSB54GC thinking it would have a Prism chip in it.  
 It did not (had a ra73 instead).  I took it back to the store.  I  
was hoping I would be able to purchase some dinky off-the-shelf Wi-Fi  
card (D-Link, Netgear, Linksys, etc) that would have such a chip, but  
I cannot find anything.  I certainly don't have the patience to order  
something online.

I think what I'll do is just go drop $80 on a wireless access point.   
That will certainly do the job.  Too bad, though -- I was hoping I  
would be able to make use of the little Dell box that is otherwise  
useless to me.  Oh well.

However, I would still be very interested in any information anyone  
might have on this subject.  Thanks, Thomas.



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