Network won't reconnect automatically

[IncredibleMrT]

Hi,
A few weeks ago I was forced into a reinstall - not at gunpoint or anything, just by my own stupidity.
Anyway, since the reinstall my wireless connection (net.wlan0 using wpa_supplicant on an atheros device) loses it's connnection at 2am every morning when my router box reboots. This reboot has been in place for a good long while and shouldn't be an issue. Before the reinstall my wireless connection would automatically connect when the network was available again.
Now I am having to manually start net.wlan0 when I get to my laptop in the morning.

Does anyone have any ideas what I might have done differently? I made backups of all network related configs and reinstated them at installation time.

If you need any info then please ask

Thanks all,
Matt.

[vivaceious]

well... i'm not sure why it would have reconnected automatically before and would not replicate this behavior now...
though as an alternative, have you considered using WICD to manage net connections?
i'm interested in the answer to your question though

[IncredibleMrT]

Does wicd work outside of your WM/DE ? I need wireless at boot time for daemons and like that aren't dependant on any GUI.

I really don't know what i've done differently - the setup I had before was quite standard and I made a point of making sure I used the identical configs from my backups.

[vivaceious]

could you let us know which USE flags wpa_supplicant was built with? this should do the trick

[IncredibleMrT]

Here you go...

[vivaceious]

So I did some reading around on other forums and people have complained about similar problems being solved by enabling the 'gnutls' use flag. I can't confirm this, however. I hope it works, but sorry if it doesn't.

[IncredibleMrT]

Hi all.
If haven't got around to trying the gnutls thing just yet but I have been trawling the net and checking entries in /var/log/messages & dmesg.

Here is the corresponding /var/log/message entries from the past few days