Restart Wireless Without Rebooting

[Tony Arnold]

Ken,

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:05 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
>>> sudo ifdown wifi0
>> This only works if the interface is managed by /etc/network/interfaces.
>> The OP however stated that his interface is managed by NetworkManager
> 
> I just found that you can restart NetworkManager with:
> 
> sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart
> 
> I will have to wait for it to wedge again to see if it restarts deep
> enough to get the job done.

I've had the same problem. It usually occurs after waking up from
hibernation, but not every time!

I'll try the above when it happens next. It looks promising.

Regards,
Tony.
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