Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 22:52:42 +0200: > Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: > >> Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > >>> Hi there, > >>> I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > >>> but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > >>> manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some > >>> kind of connection renewal doesn't work for some reason. Any idea what > >>> could be wrong, how to fix it or how to reconnect automatically? > >> > >> No idea why this might go wrong. I suggest you use net-auto-wireless, > >> that will handle everything gracefully. > > > > Thanks, I'll try that. > > It's important to me that wlan is completely disabled when ethernet is > > available. I hope this is possible. I'll tell how it went sometime next > > week when university starts. > > I use the following script with ifplugd: > > #!/bin/sh > > [ "$1" = "eth1" ] || exit 0 > > case "$2" in > up) > /etc/rc.d/net-auto-wireless stop > sleep 1 > /usr/bin/netcfg lan > ;; > down) > /usr/bin/netcfg -d lan > sleep 1 > /etc/rc.d/net-auto-wireless start > ;; > *) > exit 1 > ;; > esac > > exit 0 Thanks Thomas, this looks simple enough, I'll give netcfg + net-auto-wireless + ifplugd + this script a shot, looks like a good solution to me.
