Re: wifi loses its mind

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 11:15:04AM -0500, Will Senn wrote:
> > On Aug 11, 2024, at 10:28 AM, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> > will.senn%gmail.com@localhost (Will Senn) writes:
> >>> local network, no issues. However, if I remote into it over ssh and 
> >>> leave the connection open, it will eventually lose it's mind, meaning 
> >>> that the ssh session stops responding, I can't ping it from the remote 
> >>> host on another terminal, and if I log into the device locally, it 
> >>> can't ping my remote host... until I do ifconfig, after that ping 
> >>> starts working again.
> > 
> > I guess, it will also lock up under other circumstances, when you have
> > multiple network connections open that generate traffic.
> > 
> 
> Is there anything to do about it?

Nothing short of finding a bug, which probably is in the athn driver.

It might be helpful to run wpa_cli when the network stalls. With the
command 'status' you get information if the driver thinks it's still
connected. And it might be interesting if the command 'reassociate'
also recovers from the problem.


Greetings,
-- 
                                Michael van Elst
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