Hi all,

I'm wondering if a certain scenario is possible with a Linux box as I find there's more satisfaction in something you've built and configured yourself rather than shelling out money for something that looks dumb and you just plug in and it works.

Anyways, that aside and I'll do that if I have to but what my latest project is, is I'm wondering if it's possible to create instead of having a wi-fi router and a bridge, if I'm able to make a Linux box be my bridge.

My setup if I can put it into words is this. I want to host my HTPC in my garage, hard wire that to my router (Linux box) however have my router wirelessly connect to my bridge (or the bridge to the router, to each his own) in my living room that will connect to my Xbox (via Ethernet) so that I may stream movies hosted on my HTPC in the garage.

I hope all of that makes sense, basically what I'm trying to do is save myself from going somewhere and trying to figure out what wireless bridge to buy just to have it crap out on me in a year or sooner sort of thing. I like using Linux as much as possible just to show the flexibility of it and sometimes I take what could be a seemingly simple process and blow it out of proportion but hey that's the way I tick.

So if anyone has any suggestions I'm no Linux expert but I love being thrown into the fire and pointed in the right direction and told to figure it out for myself so if anyone is able to do that for me that'd be awesome. Or if you'd rather share something similar you've got going and help me out a little bit that'd be awesome too.

Thank you in advance!!

Hi there,

absolutely right, I feel the same about that. :-)

Wew, wait a second. This is very confusing, let me try to get it straight. We have:
* a router (R)
* an HTPC (H)
* and an Xbox (X)
R and H are connected via wired network, R and X should communicate via WiFi.
Apparently you also have a wireless AP Access Point) near X that you call a bridge (which is not a good word to use here, because the term "bridge" is ambiguous in networking). All that's missing yet is another AP wired to R unless your router R already has WiFi built in. Technically that's no problem.

Looks like. ;-)

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Let me try to rephrase things,

Thanks for your reply by the way!

So my H in the garage I want connected to my (if I can) Home-made linux box that wirelessly connects to my R which is connected to my X via Ethernet cable.

The biggest thing that I need to know if it's possible is to make a Linux box that can connect via Ethernet to my H but wirelessly connect to my R in the living room.

The thing I refer to in the first post of not wanting to go out and buy is a wireless bridge. I want to make a Linux box that takes the place of that.

I drew up a picture but I don't really see anywhere I can just post it in the forum. So hopefully my description above puts a little more clarity on the subject. If the above scenario isn't really possible then I will just go pick up a router I can use in bridge mode because I want all the noisy stuff out in the garage in my rack and all the small quiet stuff inside.

Let me know what you think!

certainly it can be done, just search for 'bridging adapters' in linux
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...apter-in-linux

Thanks for the reply!

So saying I can get this configured, is there a specific wireless card that needs to be used or as long as it works with Linux it can be used?

as long as it works with linux, the software dosn't care what type of card.

So I'm planning on using my Dell Laptop for this. I know that the wireless works with several flavors of Linux. That way it saves me from going out and buying a wifi card for the computer I was going to use for this. That way it frees up that machine for another task. My laptop finally gets to do something with it's life, I'm happy. haha.

So my question is what flavor does everyone think would be good for a job like this? I'm going to have my wireless card connect to my router and then my Ethernet on the laptop connect to the HTPC.

Thanks for the ideas guys! I'm pretty proficient in any flavor, would just like some recommendations. Particularly with brctl built in because I do not have internet at my location.

I haven't gotten this setup just yet. But thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction! It's been a huge help! I'm going to use ClearOS, I've had a ton of luck with it before. It's just super solid and exactly what I'm looking for. I tried some other desktop flavors but didn't find any luck with what they had to offer. I also really don't like that every time I get a wild hair to do stuff like this it seems a new version of Linux has come out and everything is completely different or things haven't been implemented yet. So good ole ClearOS 5.2 it is!

Again thanks for all your help guys! I appreciate it!