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I tried setting up Mode 0 NIC bonding using ifenslave between my Ethernet and WiFi cards on Debian 10.

After numerous ifconfig wls1 up/down, I was able to set up Bond0 until it stopped working. After undoing the setup, I realized ifconfig wls1 up wasn't loading the WiFi adapter's firmware anymore (rtk8192ee)

:~$ sudo dmesg | grep firmware

[5.201360] rtl8192ee: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin

[5.201745] rtl8192ee 0000:24:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin (-2)

[5.201799] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware

[5.201845] rtl8192ee 0000:24:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin failed with error -2

I know I'm not missing the firmware because it was working before. Could this be a NetworkManager bug?

Please see my /etc/network/interfacesfile below

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

Any ideas why the firmware is acting up?

cvlo
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  • You're missing the firmware. Put it back. – Michael Hampton Aug 01 '20 at 14:52
  • Lol, how does firmware randomly disappear? Is this a thing? – cvlo Aug 01 '20 at 16:04
  • It disappears when someone or something removes it. Why that happened to you is not something I can say. But it's plainly not there anymore. So reinstall it. – Michael Hampton Aug 01 '20 at 16:16
  • Thanks! I put it back by installing "firmware-realtek" package, don't get the firmware error anymore but wls1 still refuses to list on ifconfig. rtl8192ee: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin rtl8192ee 0000:24:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin – cvlo Aug 01 '20 at 16:57

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