Hi All,
Got abit of a strange problem, my wireless keeps freezing ie all of a sudden internet will stop working, The way to fix it is to go to Knetworkmanager and turn off the wireless and then turn it back on.
It does this if i leave my system running overnight or while im at work, As if the wireless card is going into sleep mode but not the laptop
System Details
Acer Aspire 5336 + OS11.4 + KDE 4.6.00
On 10/10/2011 08:26 PM, AndrewjBarratt wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Got abit of a strange problem, my wireless keeps freezing ie all of a
> sudden internet will stop working, The way to fix it is to go to
> Knetworkmanager and turn off the wireless and then turn it back on.
>
> It does this if i leave my system running overnight or while im at
> work, As if the wireless card is going into sleep mode but not the
> laptop
>
>
> System Details
>
> Acer Aspire 5336 + OS11.4 + KDE 4.6.00
>
>
could be a power savings setting in openSUSE or your BIOS which is
putting the wireless to sleep…or maybe a cron job…or, if you don’t
own the wireless access point, maybe it is forcing you off the
connection (or maybe even if you do own it it is set up to kick you off)
to investigate if the problem is in KDE go Personal Settings - Configure
Desktop > Hardware > Power Management
you didn’t say but i assume when you leave your laptop running overnight
or while at work it is plugged into wall power, so on the “Global
settings” page note the name of the Profile you have set for “When AC
Acaptor is plugged in”, here mine says “Performance”…
then click (on the left) to “Power Profiles” and on the new view select
“Performance” (or which every profile you found on the Global Settings
page) then inspect the setting there to make sure there is nothing
causing the wifi shutdown
if you find nothing there you should investigate in your BIOS or wi-fi
access point…
well, depending on your ISP, they may be kicking you off…some
advertise no limit on downloads but make it difficult to stay
connected…like, maybe your assigned IP is set to expire each 6 or 8
hours…that would (may?) cause your connection to drop and not resume
until you reactivate network manager…
a real guru (not me) can probably write a script to test for a net
connection, and if not finding one could restart…
–
DD
Caveat
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
Which are you usingm kde4-networkmanager or the networkmanager plasmoid ? It should be the latter.