NetworkManager will restart wpa_supplicant. I do not know the answers to the other questions. I had similar symptoms, but in my case the cause was a bug (now fixed) in the ath5k driver.
--- "Forrest Y. Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Debian Etch (stable). > And yes, the driver is called ath_pci. > Do I need to run wpa_supplicant again after restarting NetworkManager? > What causes this problem? Is is a bug of wpasupplicant? > > Thank you very much for you reply. > > Regards, > Forrest > > On Jan 25, 2008 6:59 PM, Alex Eskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which distribution are you using? Is the driver called ath_pci or ath5k? > > > > I had a similar problem, and discovered that you also have to kill > > wpa_supplicant. > > So as a temporary workaround you could try something like the following: > > > > rmmod ath_pci (or rmmod ath5k) > > killall wpa_supplicant > > modprobe ath_pci (or modprobe ath5k) > > service NetworkManager restart > > > > > > > > --- "Forrest Y. Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > I have a laptop Acer Aspire 5610Z, which uses Atheros AR5005G as the > > > network controller. Everything is ok, however, sometime when I resume > > the > > > machine, I cannot access the network anymore. > > > > > > What confuses me most is, I can still access my Router, whose model is > > a > > > TP-LINK TL-WR541G/542G. > > > > > > Neither restarting NetworkManager nor reloading the ath_pci solved the > > > problem. Everything becomes good again after rebooting, but obviously > > reboot > > > is not a good solution. > > > > > > Is this a NetworkManager bug? How can I solve the problem? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Forrest > > > > > > -- > > > Stupid is as stupid does. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > > > > > -- > Stupid is as stupid does. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
