RE: Help with wireless bridge

I have tried this on several occasions and have never got it to work.  I have tried using Fedora Core to bridge between my wireless AP and Ethernet.  It works fine doing Ethernet to Ethernet but when I add the wireless, it does not work.  As I recall, it forwards the traffic but it my wireless gateway does not forward the traffic from the Wireless to the Ethernet ports on the gateway.  It would be nice if it would work, I could extend my Ethernet to another part of my house.  I am waiting to see if Linksys comes out with a fix for this (I have a linksys wrt54g).  I have not tried it since they came out with a new version of the firmware.

Hi
Can anyone either help or tell me a better place task for it. I need help setting up a wireless bridge on my Fedora Core 1 server. This Windows XP PCs. I want to extend this network wirelessly to my Dell Centrino portable.

I reconfigured the kernel with wireless and bridge support and installed a generic 8180 wireless card using ndiswrapper. I have configured it so:
iwconfig wlan0 channel 1
iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc
iwconfig wlan0 essid any
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.10 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0. I have copied the output from ifconfig and iwconfig below. The portable now detects its presence so the card must be working OK.

I think I want a simple bridge which just sends/receives packets from eth0 to wlan0, no fancy tricks. But if I create a bridge like this:
Brctl addbr br0
Brctl addif br0 etho
Brctl addif br0 wla0

then it doesn’t work and the network stops. What do I need to do?  (I know I need to add encryption and change the ESSi later for securit reasons

Thanks in advance Andrew

IFCONFIG

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:E2:0E:02:8A
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:480517 (469.2 Kb) TX bytes:956396 (933.9 Kb)
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:5F:04:1A
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:226238 (220.9 Kb) TX bytes:67785 (66.1 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x5000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:61.9.182.4P-t-P:61.9.128.251 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:483 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:211688 (206.7 Kb) TX bytes:54418 (53.1 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:5E:62:D2
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Memory:ea000000-ea0000ff

IWCONFIG

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"any" Nickname:"wire"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 02:E0:8E:7D:9C:80
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0