[arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Wed Sep 28 08:33:37 EDT 2011


Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200:
> Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp:
> > Hi there,
> > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while
> > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect
> > manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some
> > kind of connection renewal doesn't work for some reason. Any idea what
> > could be wrong, how to fix it or how to reconnect automatically?
> 
> No idea why this might go wrong. I suggest you use net-auto-wireless,
> that will handle everything gracefully.

Thanks, I'll try that.
It's important to me that wlan is completely disabled when ethernet is
available. I hope this is possible. I'll tell how it went sometime next
week when university starts.

Thanks,
Philipp



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