[ale] Lose internet access when moving rooms on campus

[James Sumners]

I'm confused as to why you need to negotiate a new connection. You
shouldn't be loosing so much signal strength between the hall and the
classroom that it would matter. If you _do_ loose that much signal,
then the wireless card should automatically look for a stronger
signal. That's the way it works.

Anyway, have you tried using `dhcpcd -k` to get a new lease?

2009/2/18 Omar Chanouha <ofosho at gatech.edu>:
> Hey Everyone,
>
>     I go to gatech. Often times I show up early to a class and connect to an
> AP in the hall to start browsing the web. Then I go into the classroom and
> obviously the signal from the AP I am connected to loses signal
> strength/quality. So I kill dhcpcd and take wlan0 down. Then i bring wlan0
> up again, connect to the AP with iwconfig, and run dhcpcd. iwconfig says it
> is connected to a new AP, dhcpcd says it is offered the same ip again, which
> ifconfig is bound to. So, in theory, everything should be good. I have an ip
> and i'm connected to the router, however I can not ping any part of the
> network. I can't ping the gateway, the dhcp router or the internet. Any body
> have any thoughts as to what could be wrong or where I should start
> debugging?
>
> I am running gentoo/flux and connect with iwconfig/dhcpcd only (no gui).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -OFosho, Miami Dolphin and Open Source Aficionado
>
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