Erik Paulsen Skålerud wrote: >Hello. I'm a little confused here. >I want to bridge my wireless card (Orinoco/Lucent Silver 11mbit) with my >LAN-adapter (fxp0). > [...]
> >So. Where do I stand? Can it do bridging in FreeBSD or not? I tried to make >it work, both in FreeBSD and Windows XP (yes, I know.) without any results. > You can't do it with Lucent cards, but if you go get a PrismII based 802.11b NIC, you can use host_ap mode and turn it into a "virtual access point". This, in turn, can be bridged with ng_bridge (I find netgraph bridging easier, personally. See /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge) to fxp0 without difficulty. I don't know whether or not you can use bridging with adhoc mode. Various manufacturers OEM the PrismII cards... SMC, Lucent, Linksys, USR, ... The only bummer is that I don't know for sure whether or not the new SMC and Linksys integrated PCI cards (both sell PCI cards that simply have a pccard slot for a pccard adapter, but both now also sell all-in-one PCI cards that aren't just pccard adapters), but I don't know whether or not the wi driver supports them. I think it might be time for a "30 day loan" from Fry's. :-) > >While searching on mailinglists, I see several people saying that you need a >binary firmware wich costs money so that the cards can work with bridging.. >the reason would be that the manufactors of these chipsets wants to make >money on selling licenses to companies who want an AP. > That's true, for Lucent cards. > >I've also heard a rumour that ng_bridge(4)/netgraph can do bridging with >wi(4)-devices. Is this true? > That's true, for PrismII cards. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
