Unfortunately I was never able to resolve this, although I didn't try
rebuilding the kernel or anything. I ended up switching to the Raspberry
Pi, because while it's a bit slower it seems to be much more stable for
longer than a few hours.


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 8:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am having basically the same issue, but wired connection with debian...
> http://beagleboard.org/project/debian
>
> I will have a connection just fine then after several hours it will stop
> responding to all network traffic as if it were not there. The LEDs
> continue to flash as normal with cpu, heartbeat, etc... It's quite
> annoying. I'm not sure if I want to even continue using it if I cannot
> create reliable projects.
>
>
> On Saturday, October 26, 2013 6:53:06 PM UTC-4, Chris Shiplet wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, I'm running the latest eMMC flasher Angstrom image, kernel 3.8.13
>> on a BeagleBone Black. I'm using a 1A, 5V AC adapter. I also have an Edimax
>> EW-7811UN N-wifi dongle, which is apparently rtl8192cu based. I installed
>> the driver and added my network info to connman, and it successfully
>> fetches an IP from my DHCP server. The dongle lights up when authenticated
>> to my WPA network, and I can SSH into it and add/remove packages.
>>
>> The problem usually comes when a large stream of text is being sent over
>> SSH - ie compiling a large program, installing a package on NPM, or a
>> installing lot of packages/dependencies via opkg. The SSH session will
>> hang, and eventually time out with Write failed: broken pipe. The board
>> will not respond to ping, or any other services running on it, it basically
>> drops off the network. However, the light on the dongle remains on.
>>
>> If, rather than running one of these commands in the foreground I start
>> it with nohup, the process completes fine in the background with no loss of
>> connection and I can verify the output with tails. Also, this happens on
>> both Ubuntu 13.04 and Angstrom... Although I'm currently back to running
>> Angstrom.
>>
>> This hasn't happened while plugged into the same router via ethernet,
>> only when using the wireless. The board appears to be running fine, the
>> heartbeat led continues and there is occasional activity on the cpu/flash
>> leds. Won't have an FTDI cable to confirm this until Tuesday, but if this
>> is an obvious fix I'd like to take care of it sooner.
>>
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