To find a solution for the 'play 10 minutes, then crash while playing di.fm' I've connected the Radio with an ethernet cable and disabled the wireless on the Radio.
That worked great! The Radio played for hours without a single hickup. I've tried to make the Radio crash by changing radio stations, starting and stopping the radio stream, switching the Radio off and on etc. but it kept working. So, at that point I realised it probably wasn't a problem with the Radio and di.fm combination after all, but a general wireless problem. In my earlier post I wrote that the problem existed with a Belkin accesspoint and the wireless interface of my Fritzbox DSL modem. But that proved not entirely true... So, what did I do? 1. I switched the Belkin accesspoint off. 2. I tried to connect the Radio to the Fritzbox. That didn't work. The screen showed plenty of signal but it would not connect. I switched on my laptop (with ubuntu linux) and tried to connect to the Fritzbox. That didn't work either. Then I remembered that I've had connectivity problems with the laptop earlier and I found out that Linux doesn't want to connect to an accesspoint if it's not broadcasting the SSID while using WPA encryption. 3. I enabled the SSID broadcast on the Fritzbox. 4. I chose 'Try Again' on the Radio and the Radio connected to the accesspoint and found my SqueezeboxServer. >From this point on the Radio worked as intended. No hickups, just music. Later I found out that the SSID broadcast was enabled on the Belkin accesspoint that I switched of earlier while searching for a Solution. So, here is what I think happened: 1. I have 2 accesspoints, 1 DID broadcast a SSID, the other didn't. 2. The Radio initially connected to the Belkin accesspoint where the SSID broadcast was enabled. 3. The Radio sits about halfway between the accesspoints so it's plausible that it changes accesspoints every now and then when there is interference from other radio sources. 4. Linux has a problem connecting to an accesspoint if it's not broadcasting the SSID while using WPA encryption and the Radio firmware is based on Linux. (try google on this, you will find plenty of people with similar problems) 5. Because it couldn't connect to one of the accesspoints the Radio would lose the connection and could not recover from that without a complete power down. 6. The 2 squeezebox classics have no such problem, probably because of another wireless chipset and/or other firmware. 7. The fact that it would only crash while playing di.fm or sky.fm is purely coincidental, it could have happened with any radiostation. Hope this helps if you have similar wireless problems. -- MikeDelta ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MikeDelta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76448 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
