Re: Disconnections

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 4/23/07, Jay Strauss <me heyjay com> wrote:
> > This looks like wpa_supplicant is rekeying the connection periodically
> > and isn't disconnecting at all.  Are you sure NM is disconnecting?
> > Rekeying every so often is normal in WPA.  Your connection may be a bit
> > iffy during the rekey phase because I believe the port is locked during
> > the rekeying, which takes at least a few seconds in marginal network
> > configurations.  What are the symptoms you're seeing?
> >
> > 21:04:23 - connection made
> > 21:29:36 - rekey
> >
> > Dan
>
> the symptom is I lose all network connectivity, forever.  not just
> during the rekey.  Once the rekey/disconnect occurs, I can't use the
> network until I manually go to the network manager icon, and select
> the same wireless network I was previously attached to, and then it
> reconnects (the icon does the spinning balls)
>
> Jay

Jay,

I wonder if dhclient is releasing your address, to troubleshoot can
you try starting dhclient yourself and see if you get an address?

Thanks,
Darren