Constant loss of connection

[abdulmueid]

I am facing the same issue with my Edimax WiFi dongle using the rtl8192cu driver on a Raspberry PI 2. The wifi seems to go to sleep randomly and throws off all connections until I reconnect or reboot.

Will try to disable sleep mode with parameters tonight.

One odd thing I noticed since last update (now Kernel 4.9.20+) is that the WiFi LED stays on and never blinks. I am strongly suspecting a common driver issue here.

Weekend is here so I will poke around and see if this issue can be fixed. Will report back.

[Nachteule]

(15th Apr, 2017 02:55 AM)abdulmueid Wrote:  I am facing the same issue with my Edimax WiFi dongle using the rtl8192cu driver on a Raspberry PI 2. The wifi seems to go to sleep randomly and throws off all connections until I reconnect or reboot.

rtl8192cu driver is still crap! You should use legacy 8192cu driver instead (don't forget to blacklist rtl8192cu).

Quote:Will try to disable sleep mode with parameters tonight.

One odd thing I noticed since last update (now Kernel 4.9.20+) is that the WiFi LED stays on and never blinks. I am strongly suspecting a common driver issue here.

8192cu driver has module parameter which lets you turn off led completely (that I'm using in my living room, makes me nervous always watching to that blinking led ...)

Terminal

modinfo 8192cu | grep led
parm: rtw_led_enable:Enable status LED (int)

This is my setting

Terminal

root@kmxbilr / # cat /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf
options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0 rtw_led_enable=0
blacklist rtl8192cu

[abdulmueid]

Thank you very much kind sir. I am used to Xbian working out of the box, so never bothered with the drivers.

You saved me a lot of time

(15th Apr, 2017 03:24 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(15th Apr, 2017 02:55 AM)abdulmueid Wrote:  I am facing the same issue with my Edimax WiFi dongle using the rtl8192cu driver on a Raspberry PI 2. The wifi seems to go to sleep randomly and throws off all connections until I reconnect or reboot.

rtl8192cu driver is still crap! You should use legacy 8192cu driver instead (don't forget to blacklist rtl8192cu).

Quote:Will try to disable sleep mode with parameters tonight.

One odd thing I noticed since last update (now Kernel 4.9.20+) is that the WiFi LED stays on and never blinks. I am strongly suspecting a common driver issue here.

8192cu driver has module parameter which lets you turn off led completely (that I'm using in my living room, makes me nervous always watching to that blinking led ...)

Terminal

modinfo 8192cu | grep led
parm: rtw_led_enable:Enable status LED (int)

This is my setting

Terminal

root@kmxbilr / # cat /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf
options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0 rtw_led_enable=0
blacklist rtl8192cu