Jim Lewis wrote: >>> One room in my house is at the boundary of WiFi reception, >>> and WiFi occasionally fails there. >>> When this happens it is nearly always restored by re-booting. >>> Re-starting NetworkManager never does the trick, however. >>> Is there any other step I could take, short of re-booting? >>> I'm running Fedora-21/KDE. >>> >> Try turning on "Airplane" mode and turning it back off. This has the >> effect of restarting the wireless NIC itself. > > Yes, doing anything to cause the NIC to reset may get it working again. > However, I didn't know computers (other than phones) had an Airplane > mode. Another thing that could be tried would be to rmmod the wifi driver > and then modprobe it back. This is obviously heavy handed, and the real > problem should still be investigated, but may get it online again which > is what the OP has asked for.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try rmmod next time it happens (though it sounds a bit dicey to me, like pulling out the plug while a printer is in the middle of printing). -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
