11-07-2015, 05:30 AM
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Update: Although the testbed with two Ethernet NICs did work (and perhaps just accidentally at that), applying the same strategy to the netbook where one of the interfaces is wlan0 did NOT work. At least not yet. It did bring up the bridge and connect to the wired side but would never try or complete getting the wireless side connected. I may look further into this.
One thing to be aware of, it is necessary to trigger the daemon (NetworkManager) to poll its state and/or refresh things by invoking touch /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf. while experimenting; you must have the proper (or root) privilege to do this. I saw elsewhere someone was editing the file with null changes to accomplish this, evidently they didn't know about the touch command.
Update: Although the testbed with two Ethernet NICs did work (and perhaps just accidentally at that), applying the same strategy to the netbook where one of the interfaces is wlan0 did NOT work. At least not yet. It did bring up the bridge and connect to the wired side but would never try or complete getting the wireless side connected. I may look further into this.
One thing to be aware of, it is necessary to trigger the daemon (NetworkManager) to poll its state and/or refresh things by invoking touch /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf. while experimenting; you must have the proper (or root) privilege to do this. I saw elsewhere someone was editing the file with null changes to accomplish this, evidently they didn't know about the touch command.