Automatic reconnect to wireless network

[Brian Parma]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Brian Parma <execrable at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>>   I've been using Kubuntu for a little while now, but I recently set up a
>> new media box for my TV.  Since I didn't want to run cables across the
>> living room, I decided to give wireless a try.  It's been a long time since
>> I tried to get wireless working in linux, so I was surprised at how easy it
>> was.  The only problem I am having is that on occasion the wireless will go
>> down and then come back up.  When the wireless first goes down, the linux
>> box tries to reconnect but is unable (since the wireless is down) so it
>> gives up.  When the wireless comes back up it doesn't reconnect
>> automatically.  If I go to the desktop, right click on knetworkmanager, and
>> click on my network it connects fine, but as this is a media PC I want to be
>> able to remotely access it from my other boxes.  Having to go out and
>> reconnect it manually so frequently is extremely annoying.
>>
>> I've tried searching for help on this topic for a few days but I could not
>> find anything specifically addressing this problem (maybe I'm just bad at
>> searching).  All the topics I found were about automatically connecting on
>> boot (which works fine).  Is there anyone that knows of a utility or setting
>> that I could use to fix this?
>>
>> I'm using the latest Kubuntu with KNetworkmanager.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
> Could you just set up a cron task to check the network every so often and
> if not connected then try?
>
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I suppose if there's no easier way I could try that (I've never messed with
cron so i'll have to do some reading ).  I was just hoping there was a easy,
user-friendly way to do it (it's ubuntu afterall ).
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