From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 3 20:17:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769A516A418 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:17:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatalis.erratum@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3F713C469 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:17:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatalis.erratum@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1548537wxd.7 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:17:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=sZcyx7CYaKXw39YVeDqkGVgz9hhgi+CizzdZtD+hLys=; b=p7QG9miUo9Q5rG8SrQ0Q2WGmIlmXPd3hZZlcyeh/XiWyjkoIroirA/FyA/6VAAgLuRqPLNLmz4XpXedgqsrNGJEUSMfCdGEDKkAlaWbHYfaz1BaHN1SlAFal3h951zefb8O+vwESTFkBF7d7bGQAbro/U1YhxlUsyhittqrmXBk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=Hm+VcTu9GmoLCjt6dPHKMB/gxeYJy3Wzp4hUnP7/q7x2ldlneTJFHoGGToeS2REmySaTPOi/DeiL10QzZS3IcHaEK2KVrz/D/ZQKnxcbF6L/DndLpaOTKzfaqM7DCgZ9vnbgL+qXyZOZv93Cjie4w98DZy4I3YYbb6oTNhm80aQ= Received: by 10.150.190.9 with SMTP id n9mr2555191ybf.127.1202069874022; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.11.19 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:17:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5b826e210802031217l7df71386p5f876072996bc4d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:17:53 +0200 From: "Reinis Ivanovs" Sender: fatalis.erratum@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: e492b512b51a8174 Subject: wireless losing connection periodically X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:17:55 -0000 hello, I've noticed that my wireless connection tends to drop once in a while and only restores itself after a relatively longish period. I'm dealing with it now by connecting a laptop by wire (the box doesn't have a screen or a keyboard) and running "/etc/rc.d/netif restart ral0", but that's a bother. googling didn't bring up any useful results, so I'm wondering, what are the best ways to mitigate or fix this (aside from using a wire)? I'm considering writing a simple script that'd constantly ping my router and restart the wlan interface if it stops responding, but perhaps there's something pre-made or more simple than that available? cheers, reinis -- http://untu.ms/