Help! Briding WiFi connection to a wan port in router.

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alphafrost

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In my dorm I only have WiFi with eduroam, as this is a wpa2-enterprise I can't seem to get my router to connect to it.
I bought a WiFi-card for my PC and are trying to bridge this connection to the wan port on my router so I can have a subnett to share files between my devises, and my devises alone.

My PC has now 2 network-cards and one wifi-card so I want a connection like this:
Wifi on pc--> wan-port on router-->lan port back to the original PC and other devises.

Meaning that the Wifi card and one network-card is only used to get internet to the router. I've tried bridging and sharing but it doesn't seem to help, I think it might be a DNS problem but that is just a guess.
If it matters the router is a ASUS rt-AC66u.

Any help would be much appreciated. :)
 
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alphafrost

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I've talked to the IT-department and they are saying that it's ok, but they can't help me in the connection as they them self doesn't set-up the eduroam connection and have no idea how it works. (Small college in Norway)
 
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First things first... Try connecting without wireless, using an Ethernet cable. Once you get that working, and can successfully access the Internet, then you can move onto troubleshooting the wireless (if that indeed is the issue).

If you think it's a DNS issue, try pinging 8.8.8.8, which doesn't require a DNS lookup. If that's successful, then ping google.com or yahoo.com - if you can't ping either, but can ping 8.8.8.8, then you have a DNS issue. You can use Google's Public DNS server (8.8.8.8 and/or 4.2.2.2) and see it that works.
 
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alphafrost

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One of the main problem is that wireless is the only way to connect to the internet here, but I did as you suggested an tried to ping 8.8.8.8 from my router. That was unsuccessful, so this leads me to believe that the bridging somehow blocks something.
I get internet on the host computer and on the router that is bridged to it I get a wan ip address. But I can't connect to the internet from the local network.
 
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