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thewooster

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Registered: 2012-10-20

Posts: 57

Netctl bonding error( Profile 'bonding' does not specify an interface)

Hey,

So basically I am trying to bond to wireless cards, one is usb, and the other pci:

tun0      no wireless extensions.

bond0     no wireless extensions.

wlp8s0u2  IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"ESSID"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: [MAC addr]
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-33 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:91  Invalid misc:2370   Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.

enp5s0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"Tardis_Home"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: [MAC addr]
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=58/70  Signal level=-52 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:1   Missed beacon:0

Bonding config:

DESCRIPTION='Bond Interface'
INTERFACE='bond0'
CONNECTION=bond
BINDSTOINTERFACES=('wlan0' 'wlp8s0u2')
IP=dhcp
IP6=stateless

When I run

sudo netctl switch-to bonding

I get the error:

Profile 'bonding' does not specify an interface

cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Outputs

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: wlan0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: [MAC addr]
Slave queue ID: 0

I have not tried this before, am I just doing something really stupid?