[Tfug] Getting wlan0 to let go?

[Bowie J. Poag]

Hmm.

Sometimes, all it takes a soothing, comforting voice of a good friend to 
get wlan0 to recognize that it's over, and that it's time to move on. 
And yeah, maybe wlan0 might feel better knowing there will be a little 
part of that access point's heart always set aside for him....they'll 
always have .memories of their connection, all the time they spent 
together, all the things they talked about....but it's equally important 
to tell wlan0 that this part of her heart is /too small now/ -- and that 
he, as a network device, really deserves something more from life. Sure, 
that piece of her heart may always be there, but it will forever shrink 
with time, never to be rekindled.

Call it nature, or God's plan, but there really is someone out there for 
everyone. Tell wlan0 that someday he's going to find an even better 
access point to associate with, and similarly, his ex-access point will 
eventually find what she needs....

It may also be helpful to get wlan0 angry, and make a clean break. Tell 
wlan0 that his oh-so-beloved access point is really nothing more than a 
honeypot, a dirty, dirty whore of an access point that associates with 
as many clients as she can handle. Who knows what kind of viruses she's 
transmitting...! She could be giving out her address to anybody who asks!

Theres also something to be said for just getting wlan0 drunk as a skunk 
and letting him sob it out. Just a night out with the guys, maybe a trip 
to a strip club, you know..Pour some beer on him, reboot him, get him a 
lapdance, flash new firmware...Something to just chalk it all up, and 
celebrate the fact that he's now free to associate with as many ad-hocs 
and access points he wants, and as /often /as he wants. Most people wont 
come right out and tell you, but theres a certain part of youth, really, 
usually during college, where you hop from access point to access point, 
hooking up only briefly.. Its only when you've had enough of that, that 
a device settles down with a persistant connection.

Just tell wlan0 that time heals all wounds.....And his DHCP lease would 
have just expired anyway.

Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag




Tim Ottinger wrote:

>I have my wlan stuff working pretty good in debian linux, but it when I move
>from place to place I sometimes can't connect because the interface is
>looking for the old lan instead of the new one.  When I'm always moving from
>home to work to airport to hotel to client site, it is a real pain.   But
>the worst of it is that I don't know how to get it to reset, and I end up
>fiddling with iwconfig and doing trial-and-error.
>
>So does anyone know how to get it to let go of old settings, preferably
>automatically?
>
>Tim
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