How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"? In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests? If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I''m dying to use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing wires if you ask me... Thanks Bob
I have a fed 10 host with wintel guests that work via a wireless connection - they are using a virtual net NAT''ted to wlan0 Robert L Cochran wrote:> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need > to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter > bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named > ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"? > > In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests? > If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I''m dying to > use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing > wires if you ask me... > > Thanks > > Bob > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen >-- Stephen Johnston 8 Lime Grove Tel. +44 (0)1506 437766 Craigshill Mob. 07786 733 150 Livingston West Lothian www.fluffyrodent.co.uk EH54 5FB
Hi Robert, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Robert L Cochran <cochranb@speakeasy.net>wrote:> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need > to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter > bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named > ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"? >I don''t think bridging works on a wireless network card. maybe you can give a try. The NAT solution shall work though. you connect on the host to the wireless LAN, then NAT this adapter to the virtual network adapter in the guest. -- Emre
Robert L Cochran wrote:> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need > to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter > bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named > ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"?No. wlan adapters can''t handle more than one mac address, thus hooking it into the bridge to share it simply isn''t going to work.> In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests? > If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I''m dying to > use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing > wires if you ask me...Use NAT (aka libvirt/virt-manager''s ''default'' network). cheers, Gerd
Daniel P. Berrange
2008-Dec-18 10:36 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Using Wireless Connection In KVM
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:39:03PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need > to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter > bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named > ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"? > > In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests? > If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I''m dying to > use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing > wires if you ask me...Wireless + bridging == fail. When creating the guest you should use libvirt''s ''default'' virtual network, which is NAT based and specifically designed to play nicely with NetworkManager http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking So no matter what wifi network/adress your host has, the guest will still get outbound traffic through Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|