On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
