Hi !
I'm currently using the following Wifi adapter :
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306
802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Device [17f9:0009]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at 1c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
The adapter work properly when used directly (as wlan0).
Now, I want to bond this adapter with an Ethernet adapter, to be able to
switch from Ethernet to Wifi when I unplug the Ethernet wire, then
switch back from Wifi to Ethernet when I plug the Ethernet wire back.
The AP and the Ethernet switch are the same box, so both Wifi and
Ethernet are seen as a single L2.
I tried to setup a bonding configuration, having eth0 and wlan0 as the
slaves of bond0. eth0 was setup as the primary slave, to take precedence
when connected. The bond0 hardware address was set to the hardware
address of wlan0, for obvious reasons.
Unfortunately, the test failed, because the bonding driver is apparently
unable to retrieve the state of wlan0 (associated and hearing AP or not).
For as far as I understand, b43 does not support ethtool, nor miitool,
not netif_carrier to retrieve the "carrier" state.
Can someone confirm ? Do I miss something ? Am I the only one trying
such a stupid thing ?
Thanks,
Nicolas.
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