Dne, 21. 06. 2010 04:10:28 je H.S. napisal(a):
I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I understand where he is coming from. I have discovered that a buggy driver, or buggy firmware on the wireless card, or both, can causewireless connectivity problems over time. It doesn't need to be torrentsof course, any network traffic will give similar results.
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A workaround is to restart the networking.
In my experience, this is not *always* true. On some platforms, ifdown followed by ifup helps. On some platforms, restarting network-manager helps. On some platforms, unloading the wireless kernel module and re-inserting it helps. On some platforms, such as my HP 6715b laptop w/ the proprietary Broadcom wl driver, sometimes putting the laptop to sleep and then waking it up again helps (short of rebooting, of course).
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