Restart Wireless Without Rebooting

[Michael R. Head]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 08:23 -0600, 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.
> 
> Running 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty on a Dell 1501, ndiswrapper around bcmwl5
> driver, Network Manager, the rest pretty normal.  All up to date.
> 
> I have tried restarting the connection through Network Manager.  No go.

Here's what I do when the driver bombs (I have iwl4965):

sudo modprobe -r iwl4965
sudo modprobe iwl4965

and, if necessary:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manager

> I have tried /etc/init.d/networking restart.  No go, of course.
> 
> I have used ndiswrapper to remove and reinstall the driver.  No go.
> 
> I have no hair to pull, or dead chicken to wave over my head while
> standing on one leg, so what magic incantation do I need to use?
> 
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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