Just thought I'd let everyone know how I've addressed an issue with my Squeezebox Radio's terrible wireless problems. I was about to return it due to constant dropping of the connection, inability to reconnect, and just general crappy wireless drivers, when I decided to troubleshoot it from inside.
Unfortunately for me the Squeezebox uses the same MAC address for both wired and wireless connections (that's got to violate some spec somewhere), so I was unable to simply login and play with the wireless connection without manually changing the wired MAC. What a PITA. Anyways, my radio was losing its connection within 2-3 hours every single time I got it to connect. Most of the time I couldn't get it to reconnect without cutting power and trying again, sometimes a dozen or more times. Even with the wireless AP 3 feet away it refused to connect. I enabled remote access via SSH and logged in to play with things. I've noticed that if I leave a window open from my desktop to the radio constantly running 'top' to display running processes the radio will stay connected to the wireless network. It's been 2 days now and it hasn't disconnected yet, even in an area with a much weaker signal. I run 'top -d300' so it only refreshes every 5 minutes. If this continues to work my next step will be to install a script to ping the network regularly so I don't have to stay logged into the device. My only worry is that it will be automatically overwritten by firmware updates. The device doesn't have a normal cron directory so I'm afraid to trust that if I create one it won't be deleted. It would be nice if I could trust this device enough to actually use the alarm feature, but with this hack I still don't. I'm kinda surprised the various Squeezebox daemons running on the device don't keep the link up themselves. -- Anger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82042 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
