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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!) |
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> I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most part. However, it seems that the connection drops every once in a while, and the system doesn't detect it. |
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> A quick restart of the wlan0 interface (/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart) resolves the issue. |
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> I was wondering what the normal procedure is for this. |
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> I have WPA Supplicant installed, but it doesn't seem to be managing my wireless at all. (Would be great to get it to do so.) |
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> I'd really like to get this working properly. It's the probably the last thing to making the system 100% usable 100% of the time, and the only annoyance right now. |
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> Ben |
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Write a quick script to run from cron every 2 or 5 minutes that tests |
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the connection and restarts if needed? Also straight from the |
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handbook... |
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# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools |
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modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) |
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And if that doesn't do the trick, there's always a means of forcing |
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modules, but I don't have it handy, should be in net.example |
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somewhere. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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