Help with wireless bridge

[Andrew Cocker]

Hi
Can anyone either help or tell me a better place task for it. I need help
setting up a wireless
<http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Linux_Networking/Q_20957382.html
>  bridge on my Fedora Core 1 server
<http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Linux_Networking/Q_20957382.html
> . This Windows XP
<http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Linux_Networking/Q_20957382.html
>  PCs. I want to extend this network wirelessly to my Dell Centrino
portable. 

I reconfigured the kernel with wireless and bridge support and installed a
generic 8180 wireless card using ndiswrapper. I have configured it so: 
iwconfig wlan0 channel 1
iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc
iwconfig wlan0 essid any
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.10 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0. I
have copied the output from ifconfig and iwconfig below. The portable now
detects its presence so the card must be working OK.

I think I want a simple bridge which just sends/receives packets from eth0
to wlan0, no fancy tricks. But if I create a bridge like this:
Brctl addbr br0
Brctl addif br0 etho
Brctl addif br0 wla0

then it doesn't work and the network stops. What do I need to do?  (I know I
need to add encryption and change the ESSi later for securit reasons

Thanks in advance Andrew

IFCONFIG 

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:E2:0E:02:8A 
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:480517 (469.2 Kb) TX bytes:956396 (933.9 Kb)
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd000 

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:5F:04:1A 
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:226238 (220.9 Kb) TX bytes:67785 (66.1 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x5000 

lo Link encap:Local Loopback 
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
inet addr:61.9.182.4P-t-P:61.9.128.251 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:483 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
RX bytes:211688 (206.7 Kb) TX bytes:54418 (53.1 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:5E:62:D2 
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Memory:ea000000-ea0000ff 

IWCONFIG

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"any" Nickname:"wire"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 02:E0:8E:7D:9C:80 
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B 
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


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