Wireless adapter quits working when idle

[jbeauchamp]

Ubuntu Server Hardy 2.6.24-16
Linksys Wireless USB adapter (WUSB54GC)

Works great as long as I'm continuously pinging something. I'm sure there's a config somewhere that will resolve this but I'm not well-versed enough in *nix to figure it out. Your help is greatly appreciated.

-James

[jbeauchamp]

FIXED

Added this to /etc/rc.local and rebooted.

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
dhclient -r wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 up
ifconfig eth0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "MYSSID"
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
dhclient wlan0

Connection is staying up now so I guess it does work out of the box!

[jbeauchamp]

Looks like I spoke too soon...

last line from dmesg:
wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP xxxxxxx - assume out of range

Any ideas?