Re: NetBSD on Dell Latitude E5510 or E6510 or Precision M4500

[Christopher Berardi <cberardi%natoufa.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:11:08PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Aside from that, no problems (I did opt for a wireless card that I expected
> to work, it uses the wpi driver though, and has the same kinds of issues
> with wpa_supplicant and the fancier attachment methods that others have
> reported with it in other systems - ie: it drops connections frequently).

I had the same issues with my wpi wireless interface (I am not using that 
interface with NetBSD at the present time). When I was using it, I got very 
tired of having to go through the commands of reinitializing the connection, 
so I wrote this script:

    #/bin/sh

    /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant restart
    /etc/rc.d/network restart
    /etc/rc.d/dhclient restart


And then I made a cron job (as root) that called this script every 30 minutes.
That alleviated about 90% of my issues.

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Christopher Berardi
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Be still, and know that I am God (Psalms 46:10)