Howdie, fellow Debianites! I'm running Lenny with Gnome on two boxes, both connected wirelessly via network-manager to my home router. Problem: about once to thrice a day, one or both of the boxes randomly disconnect (they are using the proprietary Broadcom wl.ko and ndiswrapper, respectively) and I can't seem to make them reconnect. The nm-applet doesn't show the available networks anymore. Which are the services I should restart to make networking restart from scratch? What I've tried so far and *doesn't work*:
-- running /etc/init.d/networking restart -- running /etc/init.d/networking-dispatcher restart -- killing the Gnome nm-applet and starting another instance thereof from a Gnome-Terminal -- running all of the above in every picturesque combination I could think of -- running ifup, ifdown -- logging out and logging in again -- turning wireless off and on with the hardware button on the box which has one -- all to no avail -- rebooting - oddly enough, this helps. After a reboot, network- manager reconnects flawlessly, and everything runs fine for another day or so. How does one REALLY restart wireless in Debian without rebooting? TIA -- Certifiable Loonix User #481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org