Jochen Hebbrecht | 6 May 2009 17:37
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Re: Ubuntu: network bridging between wireless and wired connection fails


Nicolas de Pesloüan schreef:
> That beeing said, Jonathan might be right about the need for WDS... 
> Can you have a look at the AP configuration, searching for a WDS setup 
> ? Because if it works on Windows, without WDS (if disabled or 
> unavailable on the AP), then we can assume that WDS is not required, 
> even on Linux (the wifi interface is able to receive traffic for 
> another MAC).
>
> If the AP is WDS enabled, then... WDS might be necessary... and 
> nothing can be done if the driver for you wifi interface does not 
> support it...
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47118

I'm having the WRT54GS router, and the explanation above tells me how to 
configre WDS.
However, when I look in my admin panel, I cannot find a tab: "WDS". I 
guess my firmware is pretty old :-)

Gmane