Ethernet bonding - Lan teaming

I am using opensuse 10.3 and trying to use 2 nic card (onboard +
wireless)together.
Each connection works fine singularly, but when I try to bond them
there will be no connection.
What I have done is
1.With Yast assign no ip to ethernet and wireless
2.Created a bond connection
3.edit in /etc/syscfg/networks  ifcg-bond0 :
DEVICE='bond0' 
IPADDR='192.168.1.5' 
NETMASK='255.255.255.0' 
NETWORK=192.168.1.0' 
BROADCAST='192.168.1.255' 
STARTMODE='onboot' 
BOOTPROTO='static' 
USERCTL='no' 
BONDING_MASTER='yes' 
BONDING_SLAVE0='eth0' 
BONDING_SLAVE1='wlan'

4.edit both eth0 and wlan1 ifcg
DEVICE='eth0'   (wlan1 for ifcg-wlan1)
USERCTL='no' 
ONBOOT='yes' 
STARTMODE='onboot' 
MASTER='bond0' 
SLAVE='yes' 
BOOTPROTO='none' 

5. Added the following two lines to /etc/modules.conf: 
alias bond0 bonding 
options bonding miimon=100 mode=6 

restart the network and I see the error BONDING _MASTERS interface not
available 
With ifconfig I see the bond0 without hardware address....
What am I doing wrong ? Could someone help me posting a working
configuration?
Thanks


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mat,

no idea if bonding between wlan and ethernet works, but check this pages for
some hints:
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2004/09/tami_sles9_bonding_setup.htm
l
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17605.html

I know my co-workers do bonding quite often on SLES10, so I could check at work
once I'm home.

BTW, why do you want to do bonding? My hard disk is pretty busy dealing with the
data from the ethernet NIC alone. 

Uwe


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Would like to use a second connection as active backup or balancing.
On another server it works just with eth0 and eth1, the problem is with
eth0 and wireless because the hardware is not found.


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mat8861 wrote:

> 
> Would like to use a second connection as active backup or balancing.
> On another server it works just with eth0 and eth1, the problem is with
> eth0 and wireless because the hardware is not found.
> 

Your wlan device still needs to connect to an AP and it needs parameters to
do so. These parameters are missing in your ifcfg-wlan1 file.

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