[ale] Ongoing Ubuntu network suckage

[Jim Popovitch]

sudo apt-get install wicd

-Jim P.

On 2009-05-29, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop machine that I'm actually using as a
> server. I got rid of Network Manager because it completely refused
> to Do What I Told It -- it would always reset every network interface
> back to "DHCP" upon reboot, even if I'd explicitly configured static
> IPs. So I am now configuring all my network interfaces (2 wired
> Ethernet ports and two Belkin wireless USB transceivers) in
> /etc/rc.local, and that mostly works fine.
>
> I have one remaining problem:
> Occasionally one or the other of the wifi interfaces will quit
> working.  The mode of failure is mysterious.  The interface is
> still associated with its access point (so says iwconfig), and
> configured with the appropriate IP; further, the interface's
> wpa_supplicant instance does not show anything unusual in its output.
> However, traffic cannot exit on the affected interface; any attempt
> to do so results in either nothing at all, or else
> ICMP-host-unreachable messages from the local wifi interface.
> Re-starting the appropriate wpa_supplicant seems to fix the problem.
>
> The wifi cards are Belkin "BasicHomeConnectivity" 802.11b/g USB
> cards ($29 at Target).  Ubuntu detects the hardware just fine,
> wpa_supplicant associates without any problem... But then after
> a couple hours, things just... stop.
>
> For the moment I've hacked around this with a once/minute cron
> job that tries to ping both wifi access points, and restarts
> wpa_supplicant if the pings fail. But that kinda sucks.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>
> -- JK
>
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