On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> 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 think it depends on how it cuts out. I had an old ASUS router running openwrt which had some issues with its wireless. My workaround was to run a cronjob in router that would do wifi up every hour or so. > 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. > > I have a couple of IP cameras working by WiFi on the computer, > which I can look at remotely. > I've connected one by TP-Link through the router, > and this doesn't cut out, but it is not wholly satisfactory. > But this shows that the router is alive and well, > only its WiFi side is failing. > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos