Re: wireless quits every few hours [SOLVED]

2010-09-22 Thread John
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > John wrote: > >> I wonder why the linux driver for one of the oldest standard wifi >> cards (Cisco aironet) doesn't work properly, but Windows does.  Don't >> see that too often. >> >> John > > If there is room for experimentation, I

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John wrote: > I wonder why the linux driver for one of the oldest standard wifi > cards (Cisco aironet) doesn't work properly, but Windows does. Don't > see that too often. > > John If there is room for experimentation, I'd install a newer kernel and see if the problem goes away. -- Kamaraju

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat September 18 2010, John wrote: > 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 st

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-18 Thread John
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Paul Cartwright 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 cam

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
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.. b

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-18 Thread John
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:25 AM, John wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> Please post the relevant line from 'lspci' > > At the moment, it's still working, but here's the line from lspci: > > 02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco > Airo

wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-18 Thread John
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Please post the relevant line from 'lspci' At the moment, it's still working, but here's the line from lspci: 02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 17 sep 10, 16:30:06, John wrote: > Hardware: IBM T30 laptop with internal Cisco Airo type of wireless > card. In other words, support is built into the kernel. Please post the relevant line from 'lspci' > So, question 1, what happens during reboot, that doesn't happen during > ifdown/

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread John
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:22 PM, John wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > wrote: >> John wrote: >> >>> Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to >>> do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. >> >> After doing the ifup thing, run th

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread John
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > John wrote: > >> Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to >> do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. > > After doing the ifup thing, run the following command (as root) and see if > it helps. > >

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John wrote: > Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to > do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. After doing the ifup thing, run the following command (as root) and see if it helps. # /etc/init.d/networking restart -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malaya

wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread John
I writing this on Windows XP (yuck) because rebooting my linux system every few hours is driving me crazy. On Windows, it will run for days. So I think hardware is probably not the problem. Hardware: IBM T30 laptop with internal Cisco Airo type of wireless card. In other words, support is built