Re: cannot connect to the internet after resume

[Alex Eskin <alexeskin yahoo com>]

NetworkManager will restart wpa_supplicant. I do not know the
answers to the other questions. I had similar symptoms, 
but in my case the cause was a bug (now fixed) 
in the ath5k driver.  

--- "Forrest Y. Yu" <forrest yu gmail com> wrote:

> I use Debian Etch (stable).
> And yes, the driver is called ath_pci.
> Do I need to run wpa_supplicant again after restarting NetworkManager?
> What causes this problem? Is is a bug of wpasupplicant?
> 
> Thank you very much for you reply.
> 
> Regards,
> Forrest
> 
> On Jan 25, 2008 6:59 PM, Alex Eskin <alexeskin yahoo com> wrote:
> 
> > Which distribution are you using? Is the driver called ath_pci or ath5k?
> >
> > I had a similar problem, and discovered that you also have to kill
> > wpa_supplicant.
> > So as a temporary workaround you could try something like the following:
> >
> > rmmod ath_pci (or rmmod ath5k)
> > killall wpa_supplicant
> > modprobe ath_pci (or modprobe ath5k)
> > service NetworkManager restart
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "Forrest Y. Yu" <forrest yu gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > >   I have a laptop Acer Aspire 5610Z, which uses Atheros AR5005G as the
> > > network controller. Everything is ok, however, sometime when I resume
> > the
> > > machine, I cannot access the network anymore.
> > >
> > >   What confuses me most is, I can still access my Router, whose model is
> > a
> > > TP-LINK TL-WR541G/542G.
> > >
> > >   Neither restarting NetworkManager nor reloading the ath_pci solved the
> > > problem. Everything becomes good again after rebooting, but obviously
> > reboot
> > > is not a good solution.
> > >
> > >   Is this a NetworkManager bug? How can I solve the problem?
> > >
> > >   Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Forrest
> > >
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