On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > 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.
What you didn't say you tried is '/etc/init.d/network-manager restart' which works for me whenever I have a similar problem (which is only occasionally). Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
