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A More Elegant Solution to Ubuntu Wi-Fi Reconnecting Issue

Previously I was having problems with Ubuntu dropping wifi connections and failing to reconnect, to solve this I wrote a script which would kill the network-manager and then connect using iwconfig commands (here). While this works fine, it felt a little hacky, having to have a script running as sudo constantly in the background […]

January 9th, 2011 | Tags: 10.04, 10.10, 9.04, 9.10, cron, crontab, drop wifi, failing to reconnect, fix, guide, hack, how to, init.d, karmic, local, lucid, maverick, network-manager, networking, rc.local, script, script on login, script on startup, tutorial, Ubuntu, wifi doesnt reconnect, wifi not connecting, wireless |
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