Hi. Please refrain from top-posting. Please do not CC me, I'm subscribed to the list.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 14:05:32 -0500 Timothy Marion <timothy.marion@marion.systems> wrote: > I do not know that I want to bridge eth0 to wlan0. You have it anyway in the current configuration. > I have one working interface on my computer wlan0. Er, your 'ifconfig' list says otherwise. At the very least you have a wired interface called eth0. It's irrelevant to the current problem, though. > I want a virtual machine using KVM to be able to communicate to the internet using wlan0. There are multiple ways of doing it. Bridge, NAT, tunnels, you name it. > All documentation I can find indicates that is done with a bridge. Because it's the simpliest way to accomplish such connectivity. But about the only *real* need to use a bridge arises if you need the outside world to communicate with your VM. As in - you need someone to establish inbound connections to your VM with the minimal hassle. > All documentation I can find indicates you do this with eth0. I do not use eth0. I have wlan0. Got it. > good new! I now have br0 with eth0 and wlan0. Just as planned. > bad new! now the laptop no longer has any internet connectivity. Which is clearly shown by this (note NO-CARRIER): > 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master > br0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 2c:60:0c:2f:be:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master br0 > state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000 > link/ether ac:b5:7d:3d:18:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 4: br0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN > mode DEFAULT group default > link/ether 2c:60:0c:2f:be:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff So, disregarding eth0. Do you have wpa_supplicant running? Does wpa_cli show successful association with your AP? Reco
