How to properly set up a network bridge using bridge-utils using wlan0 as the internet "source"?

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Published on 2012-04-13T17:12:12Z Indexed on 2012/04/13 17:42 UTC
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Hey everyone this is my first post so go easy on me.

I currently have a laptop with Ubuntu Studio 12.04 Beta 2 that is supplying a wireless internet connection to a windows 7 desktop computer that's connected directly to the laptop through Ethernet. I'm using the "shared to other computers" method in network manager but I believe it doesn't work with what I want to do. I would like to have the windows computer on the same subnet as every other computer in my house (192.168.1.x) so I can use LAN applications (MIDI over WiFi, Bonjour etc.) on the windows computer without having to run a massive cable to the router.

I've been googling endlessly and tried multiple configurations in the /etc/network/interfaces file without success. All of them would report "cannot add wlan0 to bridge"

Is there a specific way to make this work? What am I missing?

Thank you

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