Tag: Wireless network interface card
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Wireless bridge again
Can confirm that I need both commands: /etc/init.d/hostapd restart iwconfig wlan0 mode master to get my wired to wireless bridge to come back up on my Ubuntu box. Not quite sure why as obviously the hostapd service comes up on boot and the /etc/network/interfaces file has that exact mode setting line. But the bridge comes […]
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Wireless bridge, update
The wlan0 <–> eth0 ethernet bridge I have on my server now essentially works well, apart from a few issues. The most serious seems to be that the wireless card will suddenly stop working – in the sense of disassociating and then refusing to re-associate. The first time it did this it took 10 days, […]
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Using old Prism 2 card for the wireless bridge
So, I have taken the Belkin RT2500 card out and replaced it with a decade old DLink DWL-650 (a locked down PCMCIA <–> PCI bridge) – this has a Prism chipset and so should work. But right now I cannot even get the wireless card to come up, never mind bridge it… adrian@dragoneye:~$ sudo hostapd […]
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Wired to wireless bridge in Ubuntu Linux
Update: This – https://cartesianproduct.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/raspberry-pi-as-an-ethernet-to-wifi-bridge/ – is a more recent article about how bridge a Debian-like system. I would start from there! My triumph of the day has been to set up a bridged connection between a wireless card and a wired internet connection – substantially improving the coverage afforded by my wireless network. Doing this […]
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