i had this working fine on my redhat 6.2 box... i have a wireless network bridged to the hardwire network. everything masks fine and all machines can access any other and the internet. all this in ad-hoc mode. the wireless card is the cisco pci 350. i'm trying to set this up on suse 7.3 on a different box. the tools are different because of the kernel differences so some things work differently. i can set up the cisco aironet card as eth1 and for testing use a hard route to one of the wireless notbooks. works ok. eth0 works as it should to hosts on the wire lan. using the bridging tools, brctl, i set up the interfaces as described in his docs. this done, i can ping hosts on the eth0 side, but not on the wireless. looking at the bridge interface with ethereal, i can see the suse host sending arp requests and the laptop returning them, but i continue to get unreachable errors. oddly, after a while the laptop quits returning anything... or maybe my pci wireless adapter goes deaf--it's the same on that i used in the redhat machine for 6 months or so... i've been beating myself up on this for a couple of days... anyone done this with suse? i can post details if someone's got some experience doing the successfully... btw, i posted a question about support for the promise ultra133 card in the new .16 version of the suse kernels... didn't get a reply, but here's the answer--they don't support it. but, the ide patches from kernel.org go in easily and then the promise ata133 ultra board is recognized and works well.. thanks kenb ______________________ Ken Brookner kenb@brookner.com kenb@qatrix.panther.net ...!rwsys!rowdy!qatrix!kenb