WiFi restoration

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 2015-04-23 at 20:47:10 Tim wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 12:29 +0200, Timothy Murphy 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 believe the question is relevant - for other reasons. Sometimes after
suspend/resume the connection is gone and the desktop is right in front
of the router. It would be nice to be able to reconnect to the Wifi
short of rebooting.

-- 
Erik