Re: WiFi restoration

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On 27 April 2015 at 11:02, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>
>> If restarting the card allows it to reconnect when it gets into the
>> connection lost state that does somewhat suggest there are accumulated
>> errors somewhere (in the driver maybe) due to the poor connection that
>> eventually cause a failure. Increasing the signal by moving the wifi
>> access point as suggested may help mask that. One other thing you can
>> do is do a modprobe -r on the kernel module for your device and then a
>> modprobe to load it again. If it's a problem in the driver triggered
>> by connection errors then that may clear it.
>
> Thanks for the response.
> I suspect from the entries in /var/log/messages that the problem is
> with the kernel module.
> In any case I'll add modprobe -r (which I assume is the same as rmmod ?)
> to the remedies I'll try if and when the problem recurs.
>

Similar, though modprobe -r deals with module dependencies (provided
they're not in use).

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