Have to restart to connect

[czarcasm]

HP Mini 110-1100, Mint 10 (julia)
Just as the title says: When I wake the netbook from sleep I have to restart every.single.time(logout/in doesn't help) in order to connect to wifi,any wifi access point. I know it's not a huge issue but having to restart every time is getting old so any help is appreciated.Maybe in the meantime can someone post a command line that restarts my wifi?Or makes it retry?

More info:

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:26:5e:6c:ca:8b
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=192.168.5.20 latency=0 multicast=yes wire

Kernal
HP-Mini-110-1100 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Many thanks

[czarcasm]

Not even a command-line wifi restart solution for now???

[czarcasm]

Well it's gotten worse,wifi will disconnect at random times. Which is a pain in the arse when I'm in the middle of a download. Then I have no recourse,other than restart, because the little wifi icon at the bottom disappears and I cannot click on it to reconnect.

Seriously "support boards" you cant help a guy out with a command line wifi restart?

Note: I moved to Mint because I was experiencing the same issues in Ubuntu 10.10. I did a complete wipe/fresh install of Mint but am now running onto the same wifi issue.

So,no help??

[abc123]

i have the same problem! im running linux mint 10 kde, on a dell studio 15, with a broadcom BCM4313 wifi chip. when ever i close the lid or lock the screen or logout. it didnt do this to me in the gnome edition of mint. so i think it might be a KDE issue.

[smsmith]

While I don't have a broadcom device, I have discovered a method of getting the wifi to restart in the event it doesn't work after a resume.

To figure out which module your wireless uses, try this in terminal: lspci -vvnn <-- if your device is a pci device

I am using the ath5k kernel driver.

So, I suspend, resume, and if the device isn't working, I use sudo rmmod ath5k in the terminal. This will unload the module from the kernel. I then suspend AGAIN, resume AGAIN, then issue sudo modprobe ath5k and wifi then works again. Obviously, the smart thing to do is remember that this is a problem and unload the driver prior to the suspend. I was hoping to find a configuration file to do this with, but all the stuff I've found through the Google machine don't seem to work.

Now, since you're using the broadcom driver, I'm not sure this will work for you. But maybe it's a good base point to get you going.

[rdonnelly]

Guys and girls I had the same problem with my Broadcom WiFi. I got help, here is the answer:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 7&start=15

[smsmith]

That workaround works *most* of the time for me. Thanks for helping out.

When it doesn't, my workaround is able to get it back into shape still. So at least I don't have to try and remember to unload my wireless prior to sending the laptop to sleep.