Bridging wireless AP - bridge-utils

Question

Hi there,
Situation:
1. Free AP next to my home, signal weak, not everywhere accessable.
2. Laptop with wireless interface + Wireless USB-Dongle (good antenna, extended range) + Siemens SE361 WLAN Router
3. I connect with my USB-Dongle to the Free AP, I have set a wireless network with SE361 and connect to it with the internal wireless card of my laptop
This so far worked, but now I want to have internet access at the SE361-Network and I think I need to bridge both networks. I tried with bridge-utils but brctl addbr <mybridge> <mywlanif> gives me an error (can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported) so I think I can only bridge ethernet networks with it (adding eth0 instead of wlan0 works).
On google I only found stuff about a hardware bridge or how to bridge ethernet networks.
Now I need some help how I can get this working, cau you help me please?
Is bridging even the right thing to do in this case or can I forward the internetconection somehow else?

Answer 1

Here is a simple config example
Root                                                                           Non-Root
R(config)#dot11 ssid test                             n-R(config)#dot11 ssid test
                #authentication open                    n-R(config)#authentication open
               #infrastructure-ssid                       n-R(config)#infrastructure-ssid
               #exit                                                                  #exit
R(config)#int d0                                          n-R(config)#int d0
               # ssid test                                                  #ssid test
                #statio-role root bridge wireless-client          #station-role non-root bridge wireless-client
                #no shut                                                   #no shut
For BVI interfaces you can assign either static or dynamic IP address
But it is highly recommended to have static ip for better management.