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Hi. I've noticed that after moving from opensuse to arch, my wifi connection dies on me after inactivity. I've tried this workaround:
* Add a crontab to ping a website every 15 minutes. I'm using this command:
* ping -c 4 www.google.com
However, the connection still dies. Is there a better way to keep my connection alive? Perhaps if I increase the number of packets?
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Do you experince this on other routers and/or operating systems?
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No, only on my desktop running arch. Wifi ran fine before on the same setup before using suse (same hardware, same router, etc.).
Not ripping arch here, just trying to find a workaround.
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As per this ubuntu forum post, I found something that might do the trick
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=420959
Adapted to arch, this may work:
#!/bin/sh
HOST=www.google.com
ping -c 1 -W 10 $HOST &>/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
#ping is ok
exit
else
#first try
ifconfig wlan0 down
sleep 3
ifconfig wlan0 up
sleep 10
ping -c 1 -W 10 $HOST &>/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exit
else
#second try
/etc/rc.d/wlan restart
/etc/rc.d/network restart
iwconfig wlan0 essid NOAH_S_ARK
sleep 10
ping -c 1 -W 10 $HOST &>/dev/null
fi
fiThe corresponding root crontab entry to run it every 20 minutes is
*/20 * * * * <nameofscript>Gonna try when I get home.
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Well you could always connect manually, for instance by using wpa_supplicant. And if the disconnect occurs, just look at the output...
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