Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

["Joshua Murphy" <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!)
> 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.
> A quick restart of the wlan0 interface (/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart) resolves the issue.
>
> I was wondering what the normal procedure is for this.
>
> 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.)
>
> 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.
>
> Ben

Write a quick script to run from cron every 2 or 5 minutes that tests
the connection and restarts if needed? Also straight from the
handbook...

# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )

And if that doesn't do the trick, there's always a means of forcing
modules, but I don't have it handy, should be in net.example
somewhere.

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Joshua M. Murphy