Re: Automatically reconnecting after wireless connection dropped ...

Matthias Apitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El día Friday, February 08, 2008 a las 09:49:31AM +0100, [email protected] escribió:

> Hi there.
> 
> I'd like to have my laptop reconnect automatically to my home network whenever the line is dropped for some reason or other. I currently have a script that does this for me, but I have to manually run it from the command line.
> 
> A nice feature of other linux systems is the nm-applet which keeps watch and does it automatically for you, however I cannot seem to find an equivalent utility in the FreeBSD ports.
> 
> Is there a standard way of doing this with the wi driver?

I'm running wpa_supplicant for my different Wifi areas (i.e. for WPA and
also for WEP networks) and, for example, if I toggle the power of the
AP my laptop reconnects without any kind of problem.

> -- 
> Kiffin Gish <[email protected]>
> Gouda, The Netherlands

Yes, please send me some Gouda. And please cut your lines around
column 72. Thx

	matthias

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