Good morning all, I am working on a Gateway laptop with a centrino wireless card and have run into some problems. I can use the wireless card fine, but when I try to plug it in to a ethernet cable it does not recognize the connection. In the network properties I notice that the ethernet connection is "Bridged". If I remove the bridge, the ethernet works fine, but then I am unable to connect using a wireless connection. What is this bridge, and is it necessary? All I want is for the ethernet connection to work when I plug in a cable, and if there is no cable pluged in for the wireless connection to work. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Mario-

I do not know about it, but in Windows HELP, in the Search box, type Bridge, click GO button, then a Web search is done for information.

Just wondering about your problem-- If I click a Network Icon, then try to Bridge, this error comes up-- "To create a Network Bridge, you must select two Network connections that are not being used by Internet Connection Sharing or the Internet Connection Firewall." Maybe some clues in that ??

How did you install your wireless connection.With bundled software or did you let windows do it?.