I writing this on Windows XP (yuck) because rebooting my linux system every few hours is driving me crazy. On Windows, it will run for days. So I think hardware is probably not the problem.
Hardware: IBM T30 laptop with internal Cisco Airo type of wireless card. In other words, support is built into the kernel. O/S is Mepis 8, which is Debian Lenny, more or less. Encryption is WEP What happens is that wireless will die randomly after a few hours. Mepis has a nice network wizard, but using it to restart the network won't fix things. ifdown eth1 followed by ifup eth1 won't fix it either. I must reboot the machine, but that works every time. So, question 1, what happens during reboot, that doesn't happen during ifdown/ ifup Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. If I can get that far, I can start worrying about what is actually causing the problem, but I would like to be able to restart without rebooting. Any hints? Thanks. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimc8gpaomsx7ont2giype7x1mwpvafk9yu-x...@mail.gmail.com
