[SOLVED] Kodi 17.6, no more wifi?

[Nachteule]

(27th Nov, 2017 10:46 AM)deeej Wrote:  Ok, are you ready for the "kicker" off the year?

Changing Network SSID did it!!!!

Wow, unbelievable

Quote:And the even more funny thing is that it will list routers SSID with spaces "This is a router" :-D

Same here, I see ESSID's with spaces, but never used a ESSID with space included. AFAIR there is/was ? a problem, but can't remember in which context that was. Toooo long ago ...

Ehm, maybe the router was confused and needed restarting ....

Quote:This have to be a bug and not an intendent feature with Kodi 17.4 and up. SSID with spaces have never been a problem for me until after Kodi 17.4.

Again, that has nothing to do with Kodi 17.4, must be a different package, maybe wpasupplicant or kernel, don't know

But anyway, I'll test a ESSID with spaces next days, will see what happens

Quote:Just for the kick off it. I will try to reset my SSID to "Asus router" and see what will happen (will do that tomorrow) :-)

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! For your patience and guidance!!!

I will post a report what happened when i tried reseting to a SSID with spaces....will it let me scan?

Ok, so good night

[ThePumisher]

Got the same problem (with the small difference that i'm still on 17.4 and not on 17.6) after installing the latest system-update and performing a restart, and the solution for me was also changing the ssid name from "Martin Router King" to "MartinRouterKing" first on my router and then on xbian via sudo nano /etc/network/interface
Now Kodi is able again to search for networks. But what i don't understand - there are plenty of networks with no blank in the ssid and Kodi couldn't find them before.

edit: one minute later and it's broken again
edit2: aaand it seems that i can't get it running again

[Nachteule]

(28th Nov, 2017 04:10 AM)ThePumisher Wrote:  Got the same problem (with the small difference that i'm still on 17.4 and not on 17.6) after installing the latest system-update and performing a restart, and the solution for me was also changing the ssid name from "Martin Router King" to "MartinRouterKing" first on my router and then on xbian via sudo nano /etc/network/interface
Now Kodi is able again to search for networks. But what i don't understand - there are plenty of networks with no blank in the ssid and Kodi couldn't find them before.

edit: one minute later and it's broken again
edit2: aaand it seems that i can't get it running again

OMG so the culprit must be in one of the packages you upgraded

Code:

sudo cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep upgrade

helps finding all packages which has been upgraded

[Roy Terhaar]

Hi, I am not sure if it helps in the discussion, but I am also facing problems with the onboard wlan0 adapter. I am not running kodi on this interface, but it stopped working after upgrading to the new linux kernel (4.9.62+-1511024152). I have reverted back to kernel 4.9.60+. This works fine with Kodi 17.6.
The issue with the wlan0 adapter that I had is that it did not receive any DHCP offers. I also tried to configure the adapter using a static IP but that also did not work. So it looks to me that it has got to do something with the kernel the driver or maybe a combination?

[ThePumisher]

(28th Nov, 2017 05:52 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  OMG so the culprit must be in one of the packages you upgraded

Code:

sudo cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep upgrade

helps finding all packages which has been upgraded

i somehow managed to install 17.6 in the past hour (via ethernet), but that doesn't help fixing the wifi

Code:

2017-11-12 20:49:57 upgrade xbian-package-config-shell:armhf 20171001-1 20171108-0
2017-11-12 20:50:35 upgrade linux-image-bcm2836:armhf 4.9.58+-1508858583 4.9.60+-1509910371
2017-11-12 20:51:33 upgrade xbian-package-initramfs-tools:armhf 20171010-0 20171110-0
2017-11-12 20:52:05 upgrade xbian-package-repo:armhf 20170902-0 20171106-0
2017-11-21 17:40:00 upgrade linux-image-bcm2836:armhf 4.9.60+-1509910371 4.9.62+-1511024152
2017-11-27 19:54:52 upgrade xbian-package-initramfs-tools:armhf 20171110-0 20171122-0
2017-11-27 19:56:22 upgrade xbian-package-config-shell:armhf 20171108-0 20171124-0
2017-11-27 19:16:49 upgrade xbian-update:armhf 20171002-0 20171110-0
2017-11-27 19:39:02 upgrade xbian-package-xbmc:armhf 17.4-154187472 17.6-1511083250

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(28th Nov, 2017 06:22 AM)Roy Terhaar Wrote:  it stopped working after upgrading to the new linux kernel (4.9.62+-1511024152).

after looking when installed that package, this seems to be the time my wifi was broken

how to i set back to an older kernel if that may be the solution? never done that

[Nachteule]

(28th Nov, 2017 06:27 AM)ThePumisher Wrote:  

(28th Nov, 2017 05:52 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  OMG so the culprit must be in one of the packages you upgraded

Code:

sudo cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep upgrade

helps finding all packages which has been upgraded

i somehow managed to install 17.6 in the past hour (via ethernet), but that doesn't help fixing the wifi

Code:

2017-11-12 20:49:57 upgrade xbian-package-config-shell:armhf 20171001-1 20171108-0
2017-11-12 20:50:35 upgrade linux-image-bcm2836:armhf 4.9.58+-1508858583 4.9.60+-1509910371
2017-11-12 20:51:33 upgrade xbian-package-initramfs-tools:armhf 20171010-0 20171110-0
2017-11-12 20:52:05 upgrade xbian-package-repo:armhf 20170902-0 20171106-0
2017-11-21 17:40:00 upgrade linux-image-bcm2836:armhf 4.9.60+-1509910371 4.9.62+-1511024152
2017-11-27 19:54:52 upgrade xbian-package-initramfs-tools:armhf 20171110-0 20171122-0
2017-11-27 19:56:22 upgrade xbian-package-config-shell:armhf 20171108-0 20171124-0
2017-11-27 19:16:49 upgrade xbian-update:armhf 20171002-0 20171110-0
2017-11-27 19:39:02 upgrade xbian-package-xbmc:armhf 17.4-154187472 17.6-1511083250

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(28th Nov, 2017 06:22 AM)Roy Terhaar Wrote:  it stopped working after upgrading to the new linux kernel (4.9.62+-1511024152).

after looking when installed that package, this seems to be the time my wifi was broken

how to i set back to an older kernel if that may be the solution? never done that

1) get all versions available:

Code:

sudo apt-cache policy linux-image-bcm2836

2) Install version you want:

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-bcm2836=<the version you want>

for example sudo apt-get install linux-image-bcm2836=4.9.60+-1509910371

[Nachteule]

(28th Nov, 2017 06:22 AM)Roy Terhaar Wrote:  Hi, I am not sure if it helps in the discussion, but I am also facing problems with the onboard wlan0 adapter. I am not running kodi on this interface, but it stopped working after upgrading to the new linux kernel (4.9.62+-1511024152). I have reverted back to kernel 4.9.60+. This works fine with Kodi 17.6.
The issue with the wlan0 adapter that I had is that it did not receive any DHCP offers. I also tried to configure the adapter using a static IP but that also did not work. So it looks to me that it has got to do something with the kernel the driver or maybe a combination?

Thanks for reporting

Hmmm, that's strange. I was testing with this version yesterday, no issue occurred.

There was one brcmfmac related commit after release of 4.9.62, I'll build new kernel (4.9.65) now

[deeej]

Ok, everything worked great last night.

So today, i did the HUGE mistake on updating everything. Now, it is broke again...even if my ESSID is now a one word. This is brutal :-(

That´s it...i´m turning off ALL updates!

Here is my dpkg.log

Terminal

2017-11-27 22:12:36 upgrade xbian-package-config-shell:armhf 20171108-0 20171124

I used a clean install on Xbian_2017.11.24_rpi3.img

[Nachteule]

(28th Nov, 2017 07:45 AM)deeej Wrote:  Ok, everything worked great last night.

So today, i did the HUGE mistake on updating everything. Now, it is broke again...even if my ESSID is now a one word. This is brutal :-(

That´s it...i´m turning off ALL updates!

Revert to an older snapshot (root partition), that's not a problem. Only kernel has to reverted manually

[deeej]

(28th Nov, 2017 07:49 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(28th Nov, 2017 07:45 AM)deeej Wrote:  Ok, everything worked great last night.

So today, i did the HUGE mistake on updating everything. Now, it is broke again...even if my ESSID is now a one word. This is brutal :-(

That´s it...i´m turning off ALL updates!

Revert to an older snapshot (root partition), that's not a problem. Only kernel has to reverted manually

I have no idea how to do that :-)

Suddenly, after rebooting....my wifi is back on (haven´t changed anything). Will try a couple of reboots.

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I managed to roll back a snapshot. But it made no difference. 1 out of 10 reboots i have wifi connection.

I´m wiping the card again, going to install Xbian_Latest_rpi3 (Xbian_2017.11.24_rpi3.img) and this time i´m not going to do any updates. I´m not going to restore my home folder and see if that makes any difference.

[deeej]

I don´t know what to do. I have installed a fresh xbian version (Xbian_2017.11.24_rpi3.img). No restoring home folder or any updating.

At initial setup...it will find my wlan0 network. No problems.

But after a reboot. The network is gone. Can´t scan for routers or anything. It´s just gone.

Once again "sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning | grep ESSID" results in:

Terminal

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Invalid argument

[Nachteule]

Which kernel version are you running? Roy Teheran posted that reverting to 4.9.60 solves his WLAN issue
In the meantime 4.9.65 is available, perhaps this version solves your issue

[deeej]

(28th Nov, 2017 09:08 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Which kernel version are you running? Roy Teheran posted that reverting to 4.9.60 solves his WLAN issue
In the meantime 4.9.65 is available, perhaps this version solves your issue

I run 4.9.62+.

Will follow the instructions you gave to ThePumisher. And see if that fixes the problem.

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Tried the instruction you gave in an earlier post.

Reverted back to 4.9.60. Tried shuttingdown the system, rebooting a couple of times. And Wifi works again!!!

And also, i have learned a little Linux on the way. Thanks for ALL your help. Would have been totally lost without you!

But what does this mean? Is there a bug in the actual kernel? Do i always have to run on 4.9.60?

You mentioned 4.6.5 but i didn´t see it in the list of kernels.

I have everything turned off right now under Xbian/Update except for:
package inventory (can´t remember the actual text)
and make a APT-GET snapshot

Am i safe so it doesn´t update the system now?

[Nachteule]

(28th Nov, 2017 10:55 AM)deeej Wrote:  

(28th Nov, 2017 09:08 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Which kernel version are you running? Roy Teheran posted that reverting to 4.9.60 solves his WLAN issue
In the meantime 4.9.65 is available, perhaps this version solves your issue

I run 4.9.62+.

Will follow the instructions you gave to ThePumisher. And see if that fixes the problem.

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Tried the instruction you gave in an earlier post.

Reverted back to 4.9.60. Tried shuttingdown the system, rebooting a couple of times. And Wifi works again!!!

And also, i have learned a little Linux on the way. Thanks for ALL your help. Would have been totally lost without you!

But what does this mean? Is there a bug in the actual kernel? Do i always have to run on 4.9.60?

You mentioned 4.6.5 but i didn´t see it in the list of kernels.

I have everything turned off right now under Xbian/Update except for:
package inventory (can´t remember the actual text)
and make a APT-GET snapshot

Am i safe so it doesn´t update the system now?

new kernel has version 4.9.65 !

If you do not have enabled the auto-update feature, updates are installed on user action only. That's usually the standard setting

I would appreciate if you could install 4.9.65 kernel, to see if this strange wlan issue has gone, because unfortunately I can not reproduce this issue with my Pi 3

Thanks

[deeej]

(28th Nov, 2017 12:25 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(28th Nov, 2017 10:55 AM)deeej Wrote:  

(28th Nov, 2017 09:08 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Which kernel version are you running? Roy Teheran posted that reverting to 4.9.60 solves his WLAN issue
In the meantime 4.9.65 is available, perhaps this version solves your issue

I run 4.9.62+.

Will follow the instructions you gave to ThePumisher. And see if that fixes the problem.

---

Tried the instruction you gave in an earlier post.

Reverted back to 4.9.60. Tried shuttingdown the system, rebooting a couple of times. And Wifi works again!!!

And also, i have learned a little Linux on the way. Thanks for ALL your help. Would have been totally lost without you!

But what does this mean? Is there a bug in the actual kernel? Do i always have to run on 4.9.60?

You mentioned 4.6.5 but i didn´t see it in the list of kernels.

I have everything turned off right now under Xbian/Update except for:
package inventory (can´t remember the actual text)
and make a APT-GET snapshot

Am i safe so it doesn´t update the system now?

new kernel has version 4.9.65 !

If you do not have enabled the auto-update feature, updates are installed on user action only. That's usually the standard setting

I would appreciate if you could install 4.9.65 kernel, to see if this strange wlan issue has gone, because unfortunately I can not reproduce this issue with my Pi 3

Thanks

Sure. I will try 4.9.65 but how do i get it?
It is not listed under XBMC/Updates (only 4.9.62+) neither will 65 show up if i use:
sudo apt-cache policy linux-image-bcm2836

4.9.62+ is the highest. When i had the 4.9.62+ version it didn´t list 65 either. Because i first thought i should try to upgrade then to downgrade. But i couldn´t because it was not listed.