On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:46:24AM +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote: > On 18.07.2011 10:27, Ali Bahar wrote: > > How are you seeing that (to quote the above) "the network goes down" > > and that the driver reports that "it's connected"? > > (Typically, I use only ifconfig and iwconfig, but those don't monitor > > the connection.) > > OK, so I first recognized the problem when I rebooted my AP and the host Got it. Now I understand. > in question didn't get back online. Checking the host itself it seemed > that the network is doing fine, ifconfig showed the interface has an IP > but I couldn't ping any hosts. After an ifdown ; ifup cycle everything > was back to normal. > I pulled the power from the AP, waited a few minutes and checked back. > The ifconfig output still showed that the device had its IP. It would (retain its IP#), unless if wpa_supplicant steps in. Frankly, I am not familiar enough with the/any monitoring behaviour of wpa_supplicant to know whether it'd step in. AFAIK it should and it would. > >> occurred in dmesg. The interface even keeps it's IP although the wireless > >> was long gone. > > > > So ifconfig shows the IP#. I'm assuming that it no longer shows a > > state of "UP". > > I would assume so, but I'll have to reproduce to make sure. I don't need this anymore/yet. > > This'd seem an inane question, but I must ask: What exactly do you > > mean by the wireless being "gone"? Which GUI/utility/effect do you > > see? Is it a powered-down AP, roaming, iwconfig's output, or what? > > I pulled the power from the AP. :) Thought so. Thanks. I'll try to reproduce this here. thanks much, ali -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
