bridging two wireless interfaces - possible?

Question

What I am trying to do is simple.

1. create a bridge => br0
2. add first Wi-Fi nic => wlan0
3. add second Wi-Fi nic => wlan1

so I end up with br0 = wlan0+wlan1.

Yet, I always get this error msg: operation not supported (using brctl)

I lately flashed my router with DD-WRT and put it in bridge repeater mode. It's is exactly what I wanted to do ages ago with my Linux machine.

Any idea what was I doing wrong? and why dd-wrt can do it?

Answer 1

I've tried this as well and failed. But I did find this (note: I have not tried this solution yet, but appears to be what we're looking for): http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Using_4-address_for_AP_and_client_mode

If you are successful, please post back.

Good luck!