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farben.rausch

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Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 16

Bridging wireless AP - bridge-utils

Hi there,

Situation:
1. Free AP next to my home, signal weak, not everywhere accessable.
2. Laptop with wireless interface + Wireless USB-Dongle (good antenna, extended range) + Siemens SE361 WLAN Router
3. I connect with my USB-Dongle to the Free AP, I have set a wireless network with SE361 and connect to it with the internal wireless card of my laptop

This so far worked, but now I want to have internet access at the SE361-Network and I think I need to bridge both networks. I tried with bridge-utils but brctl addbr <mybridge> <mywlanif> gives me an error (can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported) so I think I can only bridge ethernet networks with it (adding eth0 instead of wlan0 works).

On google I only found stuff about a hardware bridge or how to bridge ethernet networks.

Now I need some help how I can get this working, cau you help me please?
Is bridging even the right thing to do in this case or can I forward the internetconection somehow else?