Re: wireless quits every few hours

[John <nesredep@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Paul Cartwright <debian@pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Sat September 18 2010, John wrote:
>> Ok, Andrei, I finally get it now.  I just removed the module called
>> airo from the kernel (networking died), and replaced it, and did the
>> "networking start" thing and, indeed, the networking came back to
>> life.
> I have had a similar problem in the past..
> but I'm not aware of how to load/unload these modules. Could you explain
> exactly what you did??

Sure.  I figured out what the module is called by doing:

lsmod

For my wireless card, the module is called "airo"

Remove the module, add the module back, and (re)start the network:

modprobe -r airo
modprobe -a airo
/etc/init.d/networking start

I'm on another machine right now so I'm going by memory; let me know
if that doesn't work.

John