Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [03-20-12 18:10]:
> That should be if you start the whole thing with "while [ 1 ] ; do" and end
> with "done". In addition, it should not take 30 sec between the unload and
> the following reload. In addition, you have a typo in the load statement.

tks, will make adjustments and try...
 
> I was merely asking "Is it necessary to reboot, or does the unload/load work
> too?" The reason is that some conditions in the device are not reset with
> the module unload/reload and require a reboot. I wanted to know which
> condition applied here.

appears reboot *is* necessary.  Wireless connection dropped again while I
was away and on return I was unable to restore connection with 
modprobe -r ath5k ath
modprobe ath5k
ifup wlan0

system appears connected but cannot ping out and cannot acces the box
remotely  :^(

tks,
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