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‎04-28-2011 12:58 PM

bridge-wlan0 keeps restarting

Guys,

I have Ubuntu 10.10 as a host system and Debian installed in a vmware player. Host system is connected to local network using wireless card. This connection works all right. Wlan0 on host system is bridged to eth0 on Debian system installed in vmware player.

The problem is that every certain period of time (about 20 sec.) bridge is going down and after that going up again without any activity from my side.

Here is the log from host system:

Apr 23 23:58:33 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV vmnetBridge: Removing interface wlan0 index:9
Apr 23 23:58:33 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52902.714326] bridge-wlan0: disabling the bridge
Apr 23 23:58:33 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV vmnetBridge: Stopped bridge wlan0 to virtual network 0.
Apr 23 23:58:33 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52902.728019] bridge-wlan0: down
Apr 23 23:58:33 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52902.728031] bridge-wlan0: detached
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52904.308001] =============>ARFR0+rate_index*4:0xff5
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV vmnetBridge: Adding interface wlan0 index:9
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV vmnetBridge: Started bridge wlan0 to virtual network 0.
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52904.316862] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1237 (vmnet-bridge)
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52904.316884] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52904.316906] bridge-wlan0: device is wireless, enabling SMAC
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52904.316913] bridge-wlan0: up
Apr 23 23:58:34 ticketdeal-HP-Compaq-dc7100-SFF-DX878AV kernel: [52904.316918] bridge-wlan0: attached

If I connected host system to the local network using ethernet port everything works perfectly but I need that wifi connection working as well.

I would really appreciate any help.

Thank you.

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YLeduc1234
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‎04-28-2011 06:39 PM

Are you sure that your Wireless card on your host is properly connected to a wifi network?  I have seen similar pattern on my laptop when my wireless connection goes down for some unknown reason and my VM is set to bridged with replicate physical network connection state being checked.

So if I loose my wireless connection, my VM network card also goes down.

Hope this help.

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