A Quick Fix for the Wi-Fi Quirkies

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A Quick Fix for the “Wi-Fi Quirkies”

While using certain wireless NICs under Linux, you may experience what seems like a system freeze. It doesn’t happen very often, but it usually occurs while some sort of Internet operation is going on, either in the background or foreground. I like to call this the Wi-Fi quirkies, though you can just call it a pain in the posterior if you like. You will know when the quirkies strike because you won’t be able to do anything, not even move your mouse.

Fortunately, the solution to this is quick and easy — the tactile approach, which I explained in the previous section. Just pull your wireless card out of the computer for a second and — beep — everything will go back to normal. Stick the card back in to reactivate and use it, and — beep beep — you can go right back to whatever it was you were doing on the Internet. It’s a simple and sure-fire way of solving the problem (and it sure beats kicking the machine).

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