Re: loosing wireless connection
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:44 am, Juraj Ziegler wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
> > My system:
> >
> > Dell Inspiron 8000
> > Belkin Wireless Notebook Network Card F5D6020 VER. 2
> > Debian Sid
> >
> > When I first boot, or when I first insert the PCMCIA network card into
> > the computer, networking works just fine. But after a period of non-use,
> > I can no longer ping the gateway. If I restart the network, or if I
> > re-insert the card, networking works again.
> >
> > What could be causing this?
>
> A wild guess would be your pcmcia card going into a power-saving mode.
If so, then how, or where, do I tell it to either wake up, or not to do that?
It is on AC power, not running on the battery when this happens. Not sure if
it happens while running on the battery.
> What card do you have? (cardctl ident).
Socket 1:
product info: "Belkin", "11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Adapter"
manfid: 0x01bf, 0x3302
function: 6 (network)
Which is an Atmel at76c50x wireless. Version 0.96 s
> Anything in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/kern during the timeframe?
No, I watched both logs twice (tail -f), and no events at all.
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