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Im using Mandriva 2009 and would like to bridge connections from the ethernet to the wireless so I can get my 360 on LIVE without having to reboot to Windows. Is there a way that a somewhat inexperienced linux user can do this or do i have to go messing in the command line?

There's more than one way to do it. This is NAT, which does what you want but isn't bridging. Run these two lines as root:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE

Then set up the interfaces on both systems with static IPs (make up two private ones that aren't in a range used by the internet connection), with the default gateway on the xbox set to the ip of the linux machine.

I guess I'm assuming that you can set a static IP on an xbox.

unfortunately that did not work. And im having a problem with the repositories in Mandriva at the moment. Everything is missing appearantly yet I can update the sources and it says everything is there. Maybe the servers locked up. I love linux but sometimes it causes stress to the point I wonder if its worth it. Well, its better than a BSOD or that abomination of the computing world that is Mac (i dont mind easier, I do mind stupid though)

I forgot to mention that you need to change "eth1" to the interface you are using for internet.

Dunno much about Mandriva, so I can't help you there.