netdev - Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

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Message-Id: <1178816781.3806.31.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 19:06:21 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

[adding linux-wireless]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:18 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> I'm wondering how to tell if a given driver/device in the kernel  
> supports the ability to bridge between ethernet and 802.11.  From  
> searching the web it looks like only the prism driver/device supports  
> this.

Normally wireless drivers do 802.3 framing as the 802.11 standard more
or less requires, so it should "just work". Am I missing something?

johannes

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