[Prism54-users] success with Prism54

[Nicolas Geoffray]

OK my mistake for the bridge, i forgot to install the bridge-utils
package...
So now bridging works on the laptop, but it does not the bridge
correctly. The computer connected to the wired card does ping the
laptop, but not the other wireless computers.

I use debian, and here's my /etc/network/interfaces
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
	address 192.168.0.10
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	gateway 192.168.0.1
	bridge_ports eth0 eth1
	bridge_stp off
	bridge_fd 2
	bridge_maxwait 0

eth0 is the wireless, eth1 the wired. eth0 has the smallest mac address.

I'm sorry, I know it's not a bridge list, but if someone has more
information, then mail me in private.

Thx in advance
Nicolas

Le sam 01/11/2003 à 23:55, Nicolas Geoffray a écrit :
> Hi Herbert, thx for the quick response
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 14:39, Nicolas Geoffray wrote:
> > > A few notes though:
> > > When I reboot the device doesn't work the first time, i have to
> unplug
> > > it and then plug.
> > 
> > btw, which kernel version?
> > 
> 2.4.23pre9
> 
> > do you load prism54 as module, or have you compiled it statically into
> > the kernel?
> > 
> No it's not statically in the kernel, it's compiled as a module and it
> probes itself at boot time (the card is pluged)
> 
> > > I try to do network bridging: I don't want to put my card as an AP,
> but
> > > I want it to share the wireless connexion (connected to an AP), with
> my
> > > desktop computer, which doesn't have a pci wireless card. But in
> order
> > > to do so, my broadcom wire card, and the 3Com card must have
> different
> > > irqs,
> > 
> > why must they have different irqs?
> 
> I've read it in a bridging howto, who also says it must have different
> I/O addresses. Are u saying it's not necessary?
> 
> > >  which is not the case for my notebook. So questions are: is there
> > > a way to change irqs 
> > IMO it's not possible to change the hw irq's used in a notebook in
> such
> > a way to avoid irq sharing, but I could be wrong
> > 
> > > for my wire card or wireless card, and does the
> > > prism54 driver supports bridging?
> > 
> > does bridging require specific support from the involved network
> driver?
> > 
> > regards,
> 
> The thing is, i have windows installed too on my laptop, and the two
> cards do not have the same irqs (the wire has 5, wireless 11, whereas
> for linux it's 11 both). I tried to do network bridging (it's built with
> windows XP), but didn't succeed whereas with a pci d-link wireless card
> on an other desktop computer, it works.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
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