Question: Bridging support and PCMCIA 

Forum: Installing Linux using or onto a PCMCIA device
Date: 2000, Jan 16
From: Jeremy Cook jeremyc

Hi, I was wondering if there was any reason why bridging should not work with PCMCIA cards. I am using my old laptop as a home server and need it to do bridging (between wireless and fixed networks). I followed the bridging howto and everything seems to "almost work" without actually bridging between my 2 PC-card ethernet interfaces. The bridging howto said something about telling the kernel that I have more than one ethernet interface for it to discover during boot, which I did do, but since I dont fully understand what I am doing here it is unclear to me whether this would help with PC-card ethernet interfaces since they would not be available until quite late in the boot process. Does anyone have bridging working with PC-card ethernet? If so, is there any big secret? I have kernel 2.2.14 and pcmcia v 3.1.8 Best regards, Jeremy Cook

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It should work Re: Question: Bridging support and PCMCIA (Jeremy Cook) Date: 2000, Jan 18 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

There is no reason why bridging should not work for PCMCIA cards. I personally have not done it, but I have had reports from people who do this. It might be worth posting a question to a Linux networking newsgroup; if you can verify that both of your network cards are working (you can ping things on each network), and it is just the bridging that isn't working, it sounds like it isn't a PCMCIA issue. -- Dave

Note: I'll try harder... Re: It should work (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Jan 18 From: Jeremy Cook jeremyc

Ok, I'll try harder. If anyone has bridging working with PC-cards though, then please get in touch, thanks. Jeremy

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