> There are some issues with some wireless cards and bridging. For
> example, the orinoco cards (and their OEMed versions) refuse to do
> bridging at all. I currently use a prism2 card in a bridge and that
> works ok, replace it with my old orinico and systems on the wireless
> cannot see the wired part of the network.
My card is one of those internal half-size things Dell uses which
appears to software as a PCMCIA card. As seen below, it loads the
Orinoco drivers. So I guess the bridging wasn't actually working?
There must be some easy way to test...
$ cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Dell", "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card", "Version 01.01", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
orinoco_cs 7880 1
orinoco 43948 1 orinoco_cs
hermes 8512 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
$ dmesg
orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a
eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:B0:63:BA
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
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