I have a problem with wireless over the network bridge. Story goes here... There are 2 laptops (Win XP pro) I want to connect with LAN patch cable in two different rooms... One laptop I need for wireless connection to the ADSL router. And of couse, I want to share internet connection to other. The other laptop cannot access wireles, because it's to far. Also wireless is the only way to connect to ADSL router. So, this laptop connects to the wireless fine, everything is working ok. But when I create network bridge on that laptop with LAN and wireless network included, it goes bad... Everything is connected fine, says at network connections, but no internet now. IP adress of an bridge is 169.254.x.x. Other computer (network adapter) also has IP adress of that type. But it shoul be 192.168.2.x, according to Simens SE555 ADSL router. And of course, internet is not founctional on both computers... I also tried to manually assing IP of 192.168.2.x type to both computers, but no help still. If I use some tool for searching IP on the LAN, it sees these two computers, even there should be more connected to the ADSL router (I see them when wireless is out from bridge).
Am I missing somethning there? is there something more to configure? wireless is unsecured network of open type with disabled authentification. LAN between computers also doesn't requires authentification... LAN is broadcom netExtreme, and wireless is Intel on both.
So if there is some good soul to help, please, i'm deperate... Thanx!
Ivan