On Saturday 07 July 2007 05:54:15 Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Hello, I am at a hotel and I am experiencing a strange issue with my > BCM4306 in my PowerBook G4--after some time the access point will > become "invalid", meaning the output of iwconfig will no longer list > the MAC address of the AP and will say "Invalid" instead, and I lose my > connection. Simply re-issuing the command "iwconfig wlan0 essid > <network name>" will allow the connection to resume. > > This is with Linux 2.6.22-rc7 and the softmac driver.
I have the same issue, and since kNetworkManager gets confused by this I have solved this with a script that continuosly checks the availability of the connection. It's not perfect and requires manual configuration for the desired AP. I provide it "AS IS" as public domain, hope it comes to use, don't expect updates or refinements, although it might happen.. What it does: * pings the AP once per second, after three failures it attempts to reassociate * after three failed associations it downs the interface and reloads bcm43xx module. Solves the connection persistency issues for me, but is a bit slow with reconnect due to its lack of intelligence
netalive.sh
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