Automatic reconnect to wireless network

[Brian Parma]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Brian Parma <execrable at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Brian Parma <execrable at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>
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>> 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 ).
>

I'm still lost...

I've looked at some cron stuff, looks easy enough to use, but I can't seem
to find any information on how to check/activate knetworkmanager using the
command line.

According to nm-tool, my wireless device even detects the wireless network
when it comes online, but it doesn't seem to want to automatically activate
the device.  Right clicking on the tray icon and clicking on the network
activates it, but is there a command to activate it? Or better, a way to
make NetworkManager auto-activate it?

Brian
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