WiFi restoration

[Timothy Murphy]

Ian Malone wrote:

> If restarting the card allows it to reconnect when it gets into the
> connection lost state that does somewhat suggest there are accumulated
> errors somewhere (in the driver maybe) due to the poor connection that
> eventually cause a failure. Increasing the signal by moving the wifi
> access point as suggested may help mask that. One other thing you can
> do is do a modprobe -r on the kernel module for your device and then a
> modprobe to load it again. If it's a problem in the driver triggered
> by connection errors then that may clear it.

Thanks for the response.
I suspect from the entries in /var/log/messages that the problem is
with the kernel module.
In any case I'll add modprobe -r (which I assume is the same as rmmod ?)
to the remedies I'll try if and when the problem recurs.


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