Hi, so it finally works. The key issue had been my failure to set up the bridge device properly with yast. I finally did this the old-fashioned manual way by editing/creating the respective ifcfg-{br0,eth0} files and then restarting the network. The configuration of hostapd was then just as described in many online tutorials. In addition, I had to change also the relevant interface information for the firewall and dhcpd, and after restarting both services I can now connect to the access point created that way, get a proper IP address and see all my local network (typing/sending this from the laptop connected via WLAN). :D Thanks to all who contributed information and ideas! All the best, Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8559 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org