Automatically reconnecting after wireless connection dropped ...

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 8 07:23:27 PST 2008


On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:49:31AM +0100, kiffin.gish at planet.nl wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I'd like to have my laptop reconnect automatically to my home network
> whenever the line is dropped for some reason or other. I currently
> have a script that does this for me, but I have to manually run it
> from the command line.
>
> A nice feature of other linux systems is the nm-applet which keeps
> watch and does it automatically for you, however I cannot seem to find
> an equivalent utility in the FreeBSD ports.
>
> Is there a standard way of doing this with the wi driver?

It should happen automatically.  It's quite possible that wi is busted though.

-- Brooks
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