wireless stoped working

[Michael Havens]

it was the syslog one. Thanks. It seems that the log is restarted at
reboot. But how do I look at the mesages earlier than today? Hmmmmmm....
this is interesting! There is a cron job that runs hourly!  The syslog line
says:

  CRON[<####>]: (root) CMD (    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly

I just tried to open cron.hourly and discovered that it is a directory; so
I cd to it but there is nothing in it but a placeholder.
SO it seems the hourly reports are not happening even though the cron job
is telling it to. And I was expecting a directory full of six months worth
of stuff!
One of the syslog lines says

  wpa_supplicant[<####>]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with <mac address>
[GTK=TKIP]

I think wpa has to do with wireless and rekeying probably has to do with
renewing the ipaddress. So maybe it is trying to renew the address in the
hopes that will..... I don't know.... anyways maybe my ISP just renewed the
address and the computer didn't like that or..... I don't know!

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog i think.
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for telling me about the logs. Where are they?
> >
> > As for what I was doing.....I was sorking with the other computer and
> when I
> > came back to the one in questiob the internet wasn't working. Then I
> noticed
> > the wireless icon not working.
> >
> > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> your logs will give you more insight as to why it stopped talking.
> >>
> >> also what was going on at the time it stopped?
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I don't know..... it just stopped working. Any pointers on what I can
> do
> >> > to
> >> > fix it? I suppose I'll try the microsoft fix..... reboot it! Well....
> >> > that
> >> > seemed to fix it. But the question remains as to why it did that. Any
> >> > ideas? That is the second time it has done that.
> >> >
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