[arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 22:52:42 +0200:
> Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher:
> > 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.
> 
> I use the following script with ifplugd:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> [ "$1" = "eth1" ] || exit 0
> 
> case "$2" in
>   up)
>     /etc/rc.d/net-auto-wireless stop
>     sleep 1
>     /usr/bin/netcfg lan
>     ;;
>   down)
>     /usr/bin/netcfg -d lan
>     sleep 1
>     /etc/rc.d/net-auto-wireless start
>     ;;
>   *)
>     exit 1
>     ;;
> esac
> 
> exit 0

Thanks Thomas, this looks simple enough, I'll give netcfg +
net-auto-wireless + ifplugd + this script a shot, looks like a good
solution to me.