Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-15 Thread pputzer
Greg Erskine wrote: > FYI: I have been using RPi4B with wifi forever, no dropouts. I do set my > router to a "fixed" channel away from my neighbours. My router also uses fixed channels (selected manually to minimize overlap with neighbors) in the 5 GHz spectrum. That's not the issue. It's not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-15 Thread Greg Erskine
FYI: I have been using RPi4B with wifi forever, no dropouts. I do set my router to a "fixed" channel away from my neighbours. Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-15 Thread pputzer
Did the firmware blob for the brcmfmac driver change between pCP 6.0 and 7.0? I've found https://github.com/piCorePlayer/firmware-rpi-wireless but I assume that that repository is not used anymore. Any chance to change the blob (experimentally) on an existing pCP image or would I have to do a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-14 Thread pputzer
I've since activated the syslog daemon. Unfortunately, the kernel prints out such a huge number of "lan78xx 1- eth0: kevent 4 may have been dropped" that both /var/log/messages and /var/log/messages.0 get drowned in seconds. I was just giving up, wenn I noticed a new error (which seems more

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread Greg Erskine
Did you reboot after removing the network cable? I believe Squeezelite/LMS uses the MAC address to create a unique player on LMS. Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread pputzer
Some new information. I've since booted the device with an ethernet cable attached and it now has two IPs (one for wired and one for wireless). Everything looks fine while accessing the wireless IP so, I remove the cable. Some time later, a dropout again. No pinging the wireless IP, despite the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-16 Thread bambadoo
Did a fresh install. So far so good. Wrote about "freeze" in the main v7.0.0 thread also before this thread. Noticed this with the excact same setup and similar "freeze". Maybe a coincidence or maybe not. BTW: I am not running Jivelite.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-16 Thread paul-
Logs are not retained across boot. If you login when you have access, and kill the jivelite respawn shell script. Then when you see the problem, you can stop jivelite, and have console access. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread pputzer
paul- wrote: > WiFi issues are often related to your specific router hardware (or > interference from your neighbors). Of course any case that you have > installed your device in is interference too.I don’t see any WiFi > disconnects with any of my test systems. Yes, but in this case the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread paul-
WiFi issues are often related to your specific router hardware (or interference from your neighbors). Of course any case that you have installed your device in is interference too.I don’t see any WiFi disconnects with any of my test systems. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread bambadoo
Also did an insitu upgrade to picore 7.0. Also experienced some disconnects. Also running rpi3b+ Montagliari Chianti Classico Riserva Every pCP version have been stable but not now. Will try i fresh install instead of an upgrade.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread pputzer
Greg Erskine wrote: > There is the $ pcp kj command that might help. kj=kill jivelite Problem is that I haven't got a shell. pputzer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36842 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread Greg Erskine
There is the $ pcp kj command that might help. kj=kill jivelite Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113680

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread bpa
pputzer wrote: > BTW it's not a routing dropout, the wireless radio seems to get > disabled. Is this a Pi4 ? bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread pputzer
paul- wrote: > pCP does not run a network connection daemon, so booting to wifi and > then plugging in the ethernet cable might not resolve internal routing > problems. pCP also does not run multiple tty's for switching sessions. > So the only way to get a console would be to kill jivelite.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread paul-
pCP does not run a network connection daemon, so booting to wifi and then plugging in the ethernet cable might not resolve internal routing problems. pCP also does not run multiple tty's for switching sessions. So the only way to get a console would be to kill jivelite.Is jivelite

[SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-01-15 Thread pputzer
I've posted previously in the pCP 7.0.0 announce thread ('#374' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113512-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-7-0-0=1004413=1#post1004413) and '#375' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113512-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-7-0-0=1004418=1#post1004418), but I