Hi, I'm wondering how to get my Debian server to automatically reconnect to my wireless network. The server is an OLPC XO-1 running Debian 5 Stable via the DebXO distribution. It does not have a wired ethernet port, it connects to the internet through my home wireless network. The wireless router occasionally gets restarted, sometimes when I'm not home, and this requires me to physically go to the laptop to manually reconnect either by operating the network manager applet with the mouse or by running a script that uses ifconfig, iwconfig and dhclient.
The way network manager behaves on Ubuntu and (I think) the testing and unstable distributions of debian is to automatically scan for and reconnect to wireless networks that it has connected to before. But in Debian 5 stable it does not do this, and there is not an option to have it do this. I've tried left- and right- clicking on the applet, going into all the menus, opening the various gnome network management dialogs, nothing. I'm quite convinced that the option is not there. Is there a way to enable network manager's automatically connecting behaviour? Getting network manager to work as it does elsewhere would be the best, its behaviour of automatically scanning for and reconnecting to any wireless network that it has connected to in the past is very convenient. But failing that I'd settle for getting it to automatically reconnect to my home wireless network by any means. I may even look into writing a script for cron to run every few minutes. The script would have to do nothing if the laptop is already connected to a wireless network, and try to connect to a network if it's not, I guess some combination of the ifconfig, iwconfig and dhclient commands might achieve this. Any help? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221164651.ga9...@kisimul