Restart Wireless Without Rebooting

[Preston Boyington]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Periodically my wireless connection dies and nothing seems to restart it
> except the brain-dead Windows way of rebooting the whole system.  In a
> UNIX system, you should be able to restart anything except the kernel
> without a reboot.  I can't seem to figure out how.
> 

try going to a terminal and typing:

sudo ifdown wifi0

to take down the wifi interface and then:

sudo ifup wifi0

to bring it back up again.  just be sure to insert your correct network
device after the "ifup" or "ifdown" (eth0, wifi0, ath0)

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