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solstice

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bonding and ndiswrapper(?) issue

hi.
I am trying to bond eth0 and wlan0 using netcfg and netcfg-bonding

ethernet and wifi are working fine with network manager or via netcfg specific profile for each

But when I try to run the 'bonding' profile (just the example one), it just locks up in my terminal and stays there. blocked. I lose network and can't kill anything. I have to reboot

So trying to make the bond manually without netcfg but with ifenslave gives the same problem.
Except it locks only when I ifenslave bond0 wlan0

/var/log/messages.log shows this error (that happened also when using netcfg).

Mar 22 15:37:32 soho kernel: [ 2405.015334] bonding: Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
Mar 22 15:37:32 soho kernel: [ 2405.015352] bonding: MII link monitoring set to 100 ms
Mar 22 15:37:46 soho dhcpcd[905]: eth0: carrier lost
Mar 22 15:38:05 soho ddclient[1096]: WARNING:  cannot connect to 192.168.0.1:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Network is
 unreachable
Mar 22 15:38:42 soho kernel: [ 2475.729934] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
Mar 22 15:39:37 soho dhcpcd[905]: eth0: carrier acquired
Mar 22 15:39:37 soho kernel: [ 2530.678424] bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as an active interface with an up link.
Mar 22 15:39:37 soho kernel: [ 2530.679893] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
Mar 22 15:39:37 soho dhcpcd[905]: eth0: rebinding lease of 192.168.0.15
Mar 22 15:39:37 soho dhcpcd[905]: eth0: acknowledged 192.168.0.15 from 192.168.0.1
Mar 22 15:39:37 soho dhcpcd[905]: eth0: checking for 192.168.0.15
Mar 22 15:39:43 soho dhcpcd[905]: eth0: leased 192.168.0.15 for 86400 seconds
Mar 22 15:40:33 soho kernel: [ 2585.920343] ndiswrapper (mp_set_power_state:366): wlan0 does not support power management; halting the device

So ndiswrapper seems to be the culprit ?
Why does ifenslave wants to power down the device ? is it a ndiswrapper "bug" ?

After that, I can't even kill (SIGTERM) ifenslave or any ifconfig process. I can't shutdown. It is blocked like the process linked to the network I guess. So I have to hard-reset

solstice

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Registered: 2006-10-27

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Re: bonding and ndiswrapper(?) issue

I have just discovered that my PC can't properly suspend to RAM with ndiswrapper and the 2 available drivers (marvel or netgear) I can use for this wifi card (netgear WG311 v3).
It works as soon ndiswrapper module is not loaded

I understand more easily that such a thing happen. But the bonding ?

Any way, I am screwed; nothing to do about it, I guess.

Last edited by solstice (2012-03-23 10:26:58)