On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:50:50PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm running a Linksys WRT54GL router from my CentOS-7 home server. Every now and then (maybe once every 2 days) the router's WiFi cuts out, and I've found no way to solve this except to disconnect the power from the router, wait 10 seconds and then re-connect. This always works. The router is running under dd-wrt.
My question is - which makes it a tiny bit CentOS-related - does anyone with such a router know of a way to wake the router up in such a case through the computer?
I wouldn't have dared to ask this question here or anywhere until recently, as I assumed my ancient Linksys routers were obsolete. But I've been reading posts recently saying that there hasn't really been a Linux router to replace the WRT54GL, and in particular Linksys's recent 11n replacement is not as good as the old model in many ways.
Anyway, if anyone has an answer to my query I should be very grateful.
You may be able to browse to the router's web page and find a clicable thingy there somewhere that does a reboot. I used to run that exact combination, but no longer have one around to look at, so I don't recall any details.
or if you can run a cron job on it, you may be able to reboot that way.
Also note another poster suggested another way to do it via cron.
Fred