Tim wrote:
> One room in my house is at the boundary of WiFi reception,
> and WiFi occasionally fails there.
> When this happens it is nearly always restored by re-booting.
> Re-starting NetworkManager never does the trick, however.
> Is there any other step I could take, short of re-booting?
*Any other*... To me, it sounds like what you really need to do is
improve the wireless situation.
Move the wireless access point, move or improve the antenna
(transmitter
and/or receiver), re-position the the failing client device, add another
access point or wireless repeater, move objects that may be in the way
of the wireless signal path.
I did get a longer antenna for the Linksys WRT54GL WiFi router.
I also tried to set up a WiFi repeater (SilverCrest SWR 300 a1)
but could not get it working under Fedora or Windows.
I have thought of using a TP-Link which is set up on my system.
But basically I just wondered if anyone had an answer to my query.
The WiFi connection is only lost about once a day,
so re-booting is not really a serious annoyance.
I would have thought re-starting NetworkManager
would re-start the network connection in the same way
as re-booting, but it seems that is not so.
I should have looked at /var/log/messages
to see what the difference is, but I didn't get round to it.
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/
eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin