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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Wi-Fi disconnecting (wicd) [SOLVED]

Hi,

After a long time of uneventful service Wi-Fi started giving me trouble. Configuration always the same: RTL8187B, ndiswrapper, wicd. After boot it works normally from 5 minutes to 2 hours, then disconnects. No reconnection is possible, the wireless network is first wisible, then disappears; after reboot the cycle repeats itself.

Since reboot helps, I'd like to know whether it is possible to restart the network things without rebooting. I played with starting/stopping/restarting network and wicd daemons, without success.

Last edited by Llama (2008-10-31 11:48:10)

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Wi-Fi disconnecting (wicd) [SOLVED]

To reset it, disconnect, stop any relevant services, remove (rmmod) and reload the driver (modprobe), then reconnect.

Alternatively, find out why it's dropping out. Check dmesg for any messages, and file a bug with the relevant developer

Last edited by iphitus (2008-10-30 09:24:45)

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: Wi-Fi disconnecting (wicd) [SOLVED]

Experimenting as suggested, I determined that wicd is the source of trouble. Clean reinstall (wicd-1.5.3-1; removing /etc/wicd directory first) helped. Probably, incorrect upgrade form wicd-1.5.1-3 to wicd-1.5.3-1. It doesn't merit a bug report, I believe.

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Probably, irrelevant. Anyway, 2.6.27.4 kernel supports RTL8187B chip trouble free, at last.

Last edited by Llama (2008-11-05 18:40:26)