Wifi dies about once an hour. Bug in update ?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Feb 4 01:06:37 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:49 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> My wifi dies about once an hour. The only way I can get it working
> again is to reboot. Very irritating.
>
> I was on the road this weekend. When I got to my destination I used
> Start->Administration->Network Configuration to change the ESSID for
> wlan0. I saved it and restarted wlan0. It worked fine. I've done this
> a bunch of times in the past without any problems.
>
> I got home late last night. This morning I edited my ESSID and
> restarted wlan0. It worked fine for an hour, then it died. I tried all
> sorts of ways to restart it, but the only way I could get it to run
> again was to reboot. I've been rebooting about once an hour ever
> since.
>
> I'm running F10, all updates, KDE, etc. I am not running a network
> manager.
>
> uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jan
> 21 02:09:37 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I downloaded a bunch of F10 updates on the weekend. I don't think I
> restarted my laptop. Has anyone else had a problem with their wifi
> quitting since installing some of the recent updates ?
>
> How do I fix my wifi network problem ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Aside: I'd love to have a network manager like what is shipped with F10
> Live, but I've never been able to figure out how to get it running. If
> anyone knows, I'd like to tackle that once I get wlan0 running stable.
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perhaps that is your problem...your dhcp lease runs out and there's no
service to handle getting a new lease.
Craig
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