[Voyage-linux] bridging atheros to ethernet

[Giorgio Ducci]

Hi Dan,

well if you want to be able to connect to your "voyage" box from remote by 
SSH it is better to have a static address. I have my 3054 Atheros card 
working in bridge mode (on my WRAP 1.E board)  with a static address and it 
works fine. I never tried with dhcp, sorry.
Cheers
Giorgio

>First let me say thanks to Punky for the kernel update with the latest 
>madwifi cvs code. It still crashes my old net4501, but works great on a 
>net4521 I have.  The old 4501 may just be getting flaky.
>
>Second, the net4521 is equipped with an AR5004 mini-pci card.  I have set 
>it up to temporarily provide a wireless link to a pc in a backroom that is 
>hard to reach with cat5 cable.  The atheros link works fine as a dhcp 
>client when in routed mode, i.e., running nat with different subnets for 
>the ath0 and local eth0. It is connecting to a Linksys WRT54G AP.
>
>When I try to bridge the ath0 and eth0 on the above so that the pc will be 
>on the same subnet as the rest of the home network, the ath0 cannot 
>negotiate the dhcp lease.  The bridging setup goes through all the usual 
>steps and seems to setup ok, but still no dhcp.  I haven't tried it with a 
>static address on the bridge.  The same bridged network config works fine 
>with a prism 802.11b wireless card.
>
>Have any others had trouble bridging atheros with ethernet?
>
>Dan Loomis
>
>
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