On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:49 PM, W. Michael Petullo <[email protected]> wrote: >> The situation is much worse now. "rescan" does not show any AP. >> >> I put in a cron entry to reboot the RasPi every 2 hours, it worked for >> a day or two. Today even a reboot would not restore the WiFi >> connection. I just shut the unit OFF! >> >> As mentioned in my OP, the USB WiFi dongle is "Realtek Semiconductor >> Corp. RTL8188CUS >> 802.11n WLAN Adapter" >> >> Any pointers where to start looking would be much appreciated. > > Have you looked at this: > > > https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-October/036677.html > > ? > > Bruno subsequently proposed a rtl8xxxu patch which replaces the driver > in question. I do not know if OpenWrt has yet accepted the patch. My > hardware became reliable after manually applying the patch and rebuilding > the kernel. > > I am not sure if your hardware uses the same driver as mine.
First I'll try a good PSU. I'll look into the alternate rtl8xxxu patch if performance continues to be flaky. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
