[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Wireless LAN (Wifi) Connection Keeps Getting Disconnected

Fri Aug 10 10:58:45 CEST 2012

Hi  Shlomi,
+
+I have another solution - works for me - but not necessarily
+recommended for the world. I use Mandriva 2008.1 on my laptop. Never
+had much in the way of keeping that connected. I occasionally have to
+pop the pcmcia wifi to get it to connect first time, but it usually
+(90% of the time) stays connected around the house.
+
+In contrast, I built a Mageia 2 Dell Inspiron laptop a few weeks ago
+and it is the devil's own job to keep connected and re-connect after
+it drops. Range to wifi gateway? I tested if at around 4feet - often
+drops connection after only a few hours or minutes (depending on ...
+temperature? Humidity? Day of the week?).
+
+To change the subject from a problem which possibly has a solution to
+one which (so far as I can tell) hasn't; I see you have had an
+interest in computer games of the timewasting solo variety; can I
+interest you in a puzzle which has troubled me for decades?
+
+Do you know those little plastic squares with 24 alphabet tiles in a
+5x5 grid? The idea is to push the tiles around until you have them in
+alphabetic order left to right, top to bottom, with an empty square in
+the bottom right corner.
+
+Back in the mid-eighties I wrote a version of this game for my
+Sinclair QL. I stored the tiles in a one-dimension array  where they
+were initially shuffled.
+
+I discovered, after much trial and error, that the chances of being
+able to solve the puzzle after shuffling is almost exactly 1 in 2. The
+problem is that 50% of shuffles results in an order where, by the
+rules of tile movement, two adjacent tiles must be exchanged - and
+that is not possible.
+
+Any ideas how to test the shuffled result to determine if such a
+transposition exists _without_ solving the game?
+
+Just a thought.
+
+Richard
+
+On 10/08/2012, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
+> Hi all,
+>
+> my Mageia 2 Wireless LAN (Wifi) Connection keeps getting disconnected. I
+> tried running this script as root:
+>
+> <<<<
+> #!/bin/bash
+> IP="10.0.0.138"
+> # IP="192.168.1.1"
+> while true ; do
+> 	if ! ping -c 4 "$IP" ; then
+> 		service network restart
+> 		# /etc/init.d/networkmanager restart
+> 		sleep 10
+> 	fi
+> 	sleep 5
+> done
+>>>>>
+>
+> It helps a lot, but sometimes one of the programs gets wedged as well,
+> and I need to run "pkill -9 ifplugd" as well. Is there any way to tell
+> NetworkManager, netapplet, or whatever the flavour of the day is to
+> start the connection again promptly after a disconnect?
+>
+> My laptop's specs are:
+>
+> <<<<
+> I also have an Acer Aspire 5738DZG laptop with the following specs:
+>
+>     Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz. (x86-64).
+>     ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 (r700)
+>     15.6" 3D HD LCD Screen.
+>     3 GB Memory
+>     320 GB Hard Disk Drive.
+>     “DVD Super Multi DL drive”
+>     Acer Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n.
+>>>>>
+>
+> I'd rather not have to baby sit it all the time.
+>
+> Regards,
+>
+> 	Shlomi Fish
+>
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