WiFi restoration

[Timothy Murphy]

Jim Lewis 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?
>>> I'm running Fedora-21/KDE.
>>>
>> Try turning on "Airplane" mode and turning it back off. This has the
>> effect of restarting the wireless NIC itself.
> 
>  Yes, doing anything to cause the NIC to reset may get it working again.
> However, I didn't know computers (other than phones) had an Airplane
> mode. Another thing that could be tried would be to rmmod the wifi driver
> and then modprobe it back. This is obviously heavy handed, and the real
> problem should still be investigated, but may get it online again which
> is what the OP has asked for.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll try rmmod next time it happens
(though it sounds a bit dicey to me, like pulling out the plug
while a printer is in the middle of printing).

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin