From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4cqF-0006IQ-5n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:55:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FAD0E0766; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15118E0766 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so858251ywm.46 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:54:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=66vNoLVpEk+Cz8FogpLaowqKL0lOLEa+o5H8HDcgNGE=; b=Afg8N8w5UVQQ43xntostW34cO23GmCVl/CPVXCbI5Q8uHMytSVVTYxK8rAKWiqJgrd UpmnBfv7AUys7gbxU5K41gCfaV53LhBTD+0ZFPZb6vmrtls+7pJvhSpn4uliPtGsLBGa 6CJ688XJN3VHseAZpnXpFLP96O+oTvY37KRDE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=OoO4quh9PFEpoj4lDeBLXfEa+MH/+Noys+SKaRFa/6TREqBzGHsn8dT6M6IWLA8j7o i5QaiimZGXirJkrrKteZreR6CmZRil/SnfvSzJrr4Wgz6eFX9OG7Qm2Bq8O0hAqXmf5A emwnmilmmAp91SPlfpSQIxLQ8IzDnUqQ9OCqc= Received: by 10.90.69.15 with SMTP id r15mr2113891aga.63.1227538490083; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:54:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.118.2 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:54:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:54:50 -0500 From: "Joshua Murphy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question... In-Reply-To: <328599.74998.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <328599.74998.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: f80bd315-af6c-476c-bd1e-d787ef195135 X-Archives-Hash: 715c96d4f2880e1cc18d75481b6857ab On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, BRM 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. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy