Re: [Xen-users] Using a WLAN connection instead of eth0 for network-brigde kills the WLAN connection

["john maclean" <jayeola@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen this on the net. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWifi.
Not worked for me but I didn't try too hard.

On 17/11/06, ilovemunic@xxxxxxxxxx <ilovemunic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi!
>
> Instead of an ethernet nic the PC I've installed Xen 3.0.3 on, only has a 
> wireless lan card.
>
> it's a Foxconn 3350 with a Ralink 2500 chipset. I've installed the Latest BETA 
> rt2500 driver: v1.1.0-b4 from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com with which I've 
> succesfully connected to my wlan.
> the device name of the wlan card is "ra0" and it's shown at ifconfig too
>
> To enable networking via brigde I changed the network-script line in 
> /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp to:
> (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=ra0')
>
> When I do boot the machine now or restart xend, the wireless network connection 
> is immediately down :-(
> (I tested the network-brigde before with a LAN card and it worked btw :)
>
> I can't find anything on the net that somebody uses a WLAN connection instead 
> of eth0, that's why I've posted my problem here.
> Which requirements does the network-brigde script have to the used netdevice? 
> Does it not work with wlan devices as only ethernet packets get brigded? Where 
> could be the error for the killing of the network connection or what could be 
> an alternative solution to use that wlan connection in a guest xen, too?
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
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