[Bug 464559] Re: ifconfig returns SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 when running commad ifconfig wlan0 up

[hielos]

I know this has been closed. I don't think it should, since many people
are affected by this. Today, I found the post with a probable solution.
It seems, indeed that it has to do with the SOFT and HARD locks. The
link to the solution is posted at the end of:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1311886 (the direct link is
http://www.opennet.ru/tips/info/2214.shtml). They provide code to cope
with the problem. It has worked for me (for now). I have been having
this problem since Karmic. I did not read the full posts, thus I don't
know if some other people have been struggling with the nm-applet
disabling the wireless connection. At first, I thought that my
enable/disable physical switch was the problem, but no. Then I thought
it was network-manager: nop. Now, I can run <code>ifconfig wlan0 down &&
ifconfig wlan0 up</code> without loosing my connection. See the links
for an explanation. I am posting this because I really consider that
there are a lot of people looking for a solution. By the way, I also
tried the ath5k path, but it did not fully work. Cheers

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ifconfig returns SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 when running commad ifconfig wlan0 up
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