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VinzC
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 Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: Intel Wireless Link 5100 and bonding |
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Hi.
After I've switched to a new laptop, a Dell XPS Studio 1640, I seem to no longer be able to configure bonding between both Ethernet and Wireless cards. I had a Dell Inspiron 9400 (with an IPW3945) before and though I couldn't do that either in the first place, I've been able to successfully bond wlan0 and eth0 recently.
Is it a matter of firmware? driver? kernel? Is it likely to happen like with IPW3945 (i.e. being able to bond later on)? Did anyone succeed in bonding an Ethernet device and an Intel Wifi 5100? (I.e. have I missed something?)
Thanks in advance.
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richard.scott
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
What's your net config like?
I have something like this (but its for wired lan not wireless and lan):
| Code: | config_eth0=("null")
config_eth1=("null")
slaves_bond0=("eth0 eth1")
depend_bond0() {
need net.eth0 net.eth1
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Does bonding work with just one interface configured?
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VinzC
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| richard.scott wrote: | Does bonding work with just one interface configured?
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With eth0, yes. With wlan0, no. Do you have an Intel 5100 Wireless card?
EDIT: Ah?! Spoke too quickly....  Bonding now works with my script at least...
| bin/bonding.sh: | #!/bin/sh
VIF=bond0
WIF=wlan0
EIF=eth0
# Initialize bonding
[ -d /proc/net/bonding ] || modprobe bonding
ip link set $VIF up
ifenslave $VIF $WIF $EIF || exit 1
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -W -B -i $WIF -b $VIF -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant-$WIF.pid
wpa_cli -a /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli.sh -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant -i $WIF -P /var/run/wpa_cli-$WIF.pid -B
dhcpcd -F both -A -L $VIF |
Go figure!
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