wireless quits every few hours
I writing this on Windows XP (yuck) because rebooting my linux system
every few hours is driving me crazy. On Windows, it will run for
days. So I think hardware is probably not the problem.
Hardware: IBM T30 laptop with internal Cisco Airo type of wireless
card. In other words, support is built into the kernel.
O/S is Mepis 8, which is Debian Lenny, more or less. Encryption is WEP
What happens is that wireless will die randomly after a few hours.
Mepis has a nice network wizard, but using it to restart the network
won't fix things. ifdown eth1 followed by ifup eth1 won't fix it
either. I must reboot the machine, but that works every time.
So, question 1, what happens during reboot, that doesn't happen during
ifdown/ ifup
Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to
do the same network restart as if I was rebooting.
If I can get that far, I can start worrying about what is actually
causing the problem, but I would like to be able to restart without
rebooting. Any hints? Thanks.
John
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