Automatic reconnect to wireless network

[Brian Parma]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:40 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brian Parma wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Brian Parma <execrable at gmail.com
> > <mailto:execrable at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:magick.crow at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Brian Parma
> >         <execrable at gmail.com <mailto:execrable at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >             Hey,
> >
> >               I've been using Kubuntu for a little while now, but I
> >             recently set up a new media box for my TV.  Since I didn't
> >             want to run cables across the living room, I decided to give
> >             wireless a try.  It's been a long time since I tried to get
> >             wireless working in linux, so I was surprised at how easy it
> >             was.  The only problem I am having is that on occasion the
> >             wireless will go down and then come back up.  When the
> >             wireless first goes down, the linux box tries to reconnect
> >             but is unable (since the wireless is down) so it gives up.
> >             When the wireless comes back up it doesn't reconnect
> >             automatically.  If I go to the desktop, right click on
> >             knetworkmanager, and click on my network it connects fine,
> >             but as this is a media PC I want to be able to remotely
> >             access it from my other boxes.  Having to go out and
> >             reconnect it manually so frequently is extremely annoying.
> >
> >             I've tried searching for help on this topic for a few days
> >             but I could not find anything specifically addressing this
> >             problem (maybe I'm just bad at searching).  All the topics I
> >             found were about automatically connecting on boot (which
> >             works fine).  Is there anyone that knows of a utility or
> >             setting that I could use to fix this?
> >
> >             I'm using the latest Kubuntu with KNetworkmanager.
> >
> >             Thanks
> >
> >
> >         Could you just set up a cron task to check the network every so
> >         often and if not connected then try?
> >
> >
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> >     I suppose if there's no easier way I could try that (I've never
> >     messed with cron so i'll have to do some reading ).  I was just
> >     hoping there was a easy, user-friendly way to do it (it's ubuntu
> >     afterall ).
> >
> >
> > I'm still lost...
> >
> > I've looked at some cron stuff, looks easy enough to use, but I can't
> > seem to find any information on how to check/activate knetworkmanager
> > using the command line.
> >
> > According to nm-tool, my wireless device even detects the wireless
> > network when it comes online, but it doesn't seem to want to
> > automatically activate the device.  Right clicking on the tray icon and
> > clicking on the network activates it, but is there a command to activate
> > it? Or better, a way to make NetworkManager auto-activate it?
> >
> what wireless card are you using? There is a known problem with the
> driver for Intel 3945ABG (I think that is the correct model) that
> behaves the way you describe.
>
> Sinclair
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According to nm-tool the driver is rt61pci (EDIMAX EW-7128G card).  Again,
other than automatically activating when my wireless network goes up (except
after booting), everything about the card works just fine.

Brian
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