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I was using the default network manager to connect to my WiFi network, but if the connection is dropped or the router restarted, the network manager won't reconnect automatically. After a couple of tries it just shows a popup to connect manually.

To avoid this annoyance I installed WICD but although it does try to reconnect to the network after a drop in connection it is unable to resolve the IP address and I am left with an even bigger annoyance.

  1. Is there a way to counter either of these issues?
  2. Something like a background process that will check network status periodically and then try to connect to a favored network?

Output of lshw -C network: 

*-network               
       description: Wireless interface  
       product: Broadcom Corporation  
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation  
       physical id: 0  
       bus info: pci@0000:12:00.0  
       logical name: eth1  
       version: 01  
       serial: c0:cb:38:18:9b:7f  
       width: 64 bits  
       clock: 33MHz  
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless  
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=192.168.11.2 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11  
       resources: irq:17 memory:fbc00000-fbc03fff  
  *-network  
       description: Ethernet interface  
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller  
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.   
       physical id: 0  
       bus info: pci@0000:13:00.0  
       logical name: eth0  
       version: 02  
       serial: f0:4d:a2:94:2d:74  
       size: 10MB/s  
       capacity: 100MB/s  
       width: 64 bits  
       clock: 33MHz  
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation  
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s  
       resources: irq:29 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:d0b10000-d0b10fff(prefetchable) memory:d0b00000-d0b0ffff(prefetchable) memory:fb200000-fb21ffff(prefetchable)
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Is there a reason why you don't upgrade to ubuntu 11.04? Maybe those issues were resolved in a new version of the network manager in 11.04. – Michael K Jun 24 '11 at 11:29
10.04 is a LTS distro , if i had 11.04 i would be upgrading every 6 months , with new bugs every time – Shakehar Jun 24 '11 at 12:57
This sounds like it might be an issue with your wireless driver. What type of wireless card do you have? (You can run lshw -C network to discover this if you don't know.) – Patches Jun 24 '11 at 14:50
its a laptop so it never occurred to me that it could be an issue with the the wireless card .will update when i return home – Shakehar Jun 24 '11 at 15:30
@Patches edited my post to add the outputof lshw -c network – Shakehar Jun 25 '11 at 6:07

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