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I am attempting to temporarily connect two networks, one a wifi and one an ethernet, via a Linux bridge with my wifi enabled laptop. I setup the bridge as such (eth0 ethernet, ath0 wifi

Code:

ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0

ifconfig ath0 0.0.0.0

brctl addbr wtl0

brctl addif wtl0 eth0

brctl addif wtl0 ath0

iwconfig ath0 essid "mywifi" key restricted "***"

ifconfig wtl0 up

ifconfig wtl 192.168.0.165 netmask 255.255.255.0

I can now ping machines on the ethernet side but not the wireless side. The bridge lists both interfaces in

Code:

brctl showstp wtl0

and my wifi signal strength meter reads fairly strong.

Why won't my bridge connect over wifi