When connection to Internet fails...

[Markus Schönhaber]

23.07.2010 17:03, Afsheen Ghorashy:

> I have a laptop running Ubuntu.  Sometimes, during long sessions, my 
> computer automatically releases the wireless connection.  When I try to 
> connect again, it is not able to. 
> 
> My current solution is to restart the computer or to do sudo 
> /etc/init.d/gdm restart. 
> 
> Is there any other service that I can restart that will just restart the 
> internet connection interface (my goal is fix the problem without losing 
> my session when this happens)?

Sometimes restarting NetworkManager helps. On Lucid
sudo service network-manager restart
should do this. IIRC, on older Ubuntu releases the service's name may be
different - "NetworkManager" or similar.

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Regards
  mks