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I've got a linksys wusb11 with the berlios driver version 0.11 and i am using a stock version of slackware 10.2, and my network connection is very unstable. after a few hours, it drops out. if i restart the computer, its fine for another few hours. please help, i am tring to run a web server! thank you!
Last edited by gobabushka; 07-16-2006 at 09:06 PM.
Running a web server over a wireless connection is far from a good idea IMHO. That said...
You should check the logs to see why it's dropping out. If it's just from a weak signal, it should auto reconnect. if something else is going on that you cannot 'overcome' you could setup a simple script to try something like pinging, and if it fails, then restart the connection by unloading and reloading the driver, and then running the iwconfig commands.
I had the same problem with my wireless connection, particularly annoying when backing up large amounts of data to my server.
I presume you're connecting through a wireless router. I emailed Belkin support (i have a Belkin wireless card and Belkin router) and they told me to do the following, which works....
Log into router and change "MTU" to "1400", and "timeout" to "0".
The MTU is prob set higher than this, which cannot reconnect when the connection is lost. Wireless cards, ive found, "lose" the signal for a second every so often. When the setting is lowered, is reconnects again and continues without informing the user or interupting transfers.
If that doesn't work, i'd try looking at your samba config, sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf.... there is a line to uncomment which increases the performance of samba across linux machines.
Fair play to using Ubuntu, ive just wiped Windows XP off my machine cos ive been using Ubuntu for over a year, and its always easy-to-use, modern, fast and stable, Dapper is really impressive.
Sorry ive just read you're not using ubuntu, so Samba may not have that option..... i would still seriously give ubuntu a go, on desktop or server, if u find slackware too "cryptic"
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