bridge wlan-eth

Hi list,

I am not subscribed to this list, but I hope someone will know the solution to my problem ...

I have checked the archives and there was a thread:

<http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-March/000224.html>

that did not really get resolved. I have discovered something about this situation that I hope someone can shed more light on.

Using hostap driver in AP mode, with a netgear MA311 or
linksys WMP11, (both PCI), with older firmware

NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6

bridge eth-wlan works great, but after "upgrading" to newer
firmware (to get essid hiding feature),

NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
PRI: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STA: id=0x001f v1.7.4

bridge no longer works, even though there is no apparent (to me) indication of error.

Is there info somewhere that tells about what was "fixed" in different firmware versions for prism chips, or better is there some workaround in the bridge code that I don't yet know about to overcome this issue?

I guess I will test all the firmware versions I can get onto
my cards and see where it broke, but if anyone already knows where the problem really comes from, please let us all know.

Thanks,

-Bob

Bob Beers
MIEEE 2415966

Bob Beers wrote:
apparently a bunch of nonsense ...

Sorry for the noise on the list, but let me close this thread,
just incase someone hits it in the archives during a search.

The hardware I was testing on had (unknown to me) changed, for the worse. I can't say exactly what in the hardware was causing the problem, but I'm not using it any more.

The newer firmware does support bridging between eth and wlan just fine.

Bob Beers
MIEEE 2415966