On Mar 14, 3:42 pm, marksouth <m...@really.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:44:36 +0100, marksouth wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:49:10 +0100, marksouth wrote:
>
> >> I'm trying and, so far, failing, to get a wireless bridge setup
> >> working.
>
> (...etc)
>
> I posted this query several days back. Does anyone have any ideas at
> all? Even a hint?

I'm trying to do the same thing to connect my entertainment center
boxes (TiVo and xboxes) to the existing wireless network. When I
connect using the standard client wireless configuration (non-hostap),
the wireless interface gets an IP address and I can ping through the
wired connection with no problem. However, trips through the bridge
fail.

If I configure the wireless interface for hostap mode, then I no
longer get an IP address across the wireless.

What's interesting is that I was able to create a bridge using Windows
XP Home and it worked fine. I needed to set the adapter to "Force
Compatibility Mode." The article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/
library/bb457038.aspx) mentioned that some wireless NICs don't support
promiscuous mode. This may be the case with the NIC I'm using
(Linksys WUSB54GC using rum0).

I'll keep trying here, but I've never done this in OpenBSD and I have
to admit that I'm not a network guru.