>>>>> "Brooks" == Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brooks> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:23:48PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: >> The netgraph bridge setup for vmware works very well and I've been >> happy with it for some time running on my laptop. My old laptop >> had an ep0 pccard and my new laptop has a builtin (PCI-attached) >> fxp0. I have also had vmware work with an ed0 pccard. >> >> However, we all just got new wireless network cards, and I was >> surprised to discover that wi0 didn't work in this configuration. Brooks> Bridging requires that you be able to send packets with the Brooks> source MAC address set to the origionating station. Cards Brooks> supported by the wi card do not allow this so bridging doesn't Brooks> work. There does exist a driver to make this work, but it is Brooks> not publicly avaiable and would be binary only if it were as Brooks> it requires special firmware. Are there other wireless cards that allow this? Why is this feature turned off by these cards? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
