Restart Wireless Without Rebooting

[Chris]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:05:25 -0600
Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> 

While the above works, I myself have used a more encompassing way.

/etc/init.d/networking stop
/etc/init.d/networking start

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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