CentOS 7.5 / armv7hl port / bonding module

[timsan]

Hello All,

I'm somewhat of a CentOS newbie, and I am enjoying my learning on CentOS.

I have the CentOS 7.5 armv7hl port installed in a banana-pi R2 (bpi-r2).

My question: I would like to set up the bpi-r2 as a wireless access point. For this, I would need to use the bond0 interface (putting wlan0 under it).

Great, but for this I would need the bonding module. It should be no problem, but it is.

Firstly, the armv7hl image came with the 4.4.70 kernel and then I did a yum update to 7.5. 7.5 has the 4.14.12-BPI kernel, but it's not booting into that kernel, but rather still using the old 4.4.70 kernel:

[root@bpi-iot-ros-ai etc]# uname -a
Linux bpi-iot-ros-ai 4.4.70-BPI-R2-Kernel #1 SMP Tue Nov 28 10:59:01 CST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Secondly, I can't find any grub tools to make it boot into the 4.14.12 kernel (which does have the bonding module). And I can't find the bonding module in the 4.4.70 kernel tree, yum search and install haven't worked in getting it installed.

Thanks for your time and I would appreciate any clues here.

ta, t.

[TrevorH]

Are you sure you need the bonding module to act as an AP? That would seem a bit weird though it's not something that I've ever attempted. I would have thought it more likely to need bridges not bonds. Bonding configures multiple physical connections to appear as a single one. Bridging acts more like a sort of software network switch.