wireless stoped working

[James Mcphee]

Sometimes the WAP decides it doesn't want to connect to me anymore and I
have to bounce my wireless connections to get it to pick up again.  Totally
my WAP's fault, but meh, I've too lazy to replace it.

nmcli nm wifi off
nmcli nm wifi on

If you're using NetworkManager.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> /var/log/syslog on ubuntu.
>
> You'll see network manager reeling usually, or accompanying iwl* (intel)
> driver messages probably.  Could be firmware, could be your router/ap dying
> too - wouldn't be the first time someone found a cheap one was rebooting
> itself occasionally with use.
>
> Could be interference too, wireless in 2.4ghz space is quite crowded, 5ghz
> is ideal if supported at both ends.
>
> WPA rekey should be seamless, that's just resetting the crypto key on an
> interval to keep people from cracking your session.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 05/08/2012 08:33 AM, Stephen 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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>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>
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