[YLUG] Interesting Networking Problem

[Njal Munro]

Well i have ordered the DLINK DWL-G122 model wireless adaptor i was
reccomended, so that will be coming in a few days, so i shall not
attempt much more until it arrives, i may again need help setting that
up, but, if its detected out of the box and i know the WEP key, i should
be fine.

Many thanks
Neil Munro

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 01:18 +0100, Phillip Michael Jordan wrote:
> Paul Gibbs wrote:
> > On Monday 08 May 2006 22:06, Phillip Michael Jordan wrote:
> > 
> >> As others have pointed out, I think you shouldn't send the interfaces
> >> down before bridging. I think this messes with the wireless extensions
> >> in a way that dissociates you from the access point. brctl is unlikely
> >> to know about wireless cards, and even less about which SSID and WEP/WPA
> >> key to use, so you'll need to ensure the wireless card is associated.
> > 
> > I have a bridge set-up at work. (Can't check it 'cos I'm off on paternity 
> > leave ATM). But, IIRC the interfaces are bridged *before* the network is 
> > bought up, and when you bring the network up you do it with "ifup br0". The 
> > rest of the operating system then sees br0 as its single network interface 
> > even though underneath it is running several network cards. All further 
> > networking needs to be configured to use br0.
> 
> I realise this, but I doubt br0 will have wireless extensions? The way I
> have understood it is that wireless settings are lower-level than
> ethernet packets, and therefore lower-level than the bridge setup?
> Setting the ESSID of a wired LAN doesn't make any sense, and it probably
> doesn't for a bridge either.
> 
> ~phil
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