Wifi is dropping on me

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Wifi is dropping on me

Postby grandcanyon » Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:30 am

I have a RPI5 running the latest version of aarch64. The past few days I am getting random wifi disconnects and I have to reboot. I'm using NetworkManager. Is there a bug in one of the packages?

[code]Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm systemd[1]: Stopping Network Manager...
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4401] caught SIGTERM, shutting down normally.
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4412] device (wlan0): state change: activated -> deactivating (reason 'unmanaged', sys-iface->
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4414] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTING
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <warn> [1712631668.4473] dispatcher: (22) failed (after 0.005 sec): Could not activate remote peer: activation r>
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4475] device (wlan0): state change: deactivating -> unmanaged (reason 'removed', sys-iface-st>
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4476] dhcp4 (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4476] dhcp4 (wlan0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
Apr 08 22:01:08 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631668.4476] dhcp4 (wlan0): state changed no lease
Apr 08 22:01:09 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631669.0121] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED
Apr 08 22:01:09 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631669.0138] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'removed', sys->
Apr 08 22:01:09 alarm NetworkManager[319]: <info> [1712631669.0464] exiting (success)
Apr 08 22:01:09 alarm systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 08 22:01:09 alarm systemd[1]: Stopped Network Manager.
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Re: Wifi is dropping on me

Postby g3ro » Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:20 pm

Might be only half helpful, but I also experieced wifi problems in the recent past, I solved it by using a newer kernel version (at least thats what I think solved it).
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Re: Wifi is dropping on me

Postby grandcanyon » Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:33 pm

Thanks for the help. Which kernel are you using. I am using 6.6.25-1-rpi-16k.

I've kept all the packages so I can downgrade if needed.
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Re: Wifi is dropping on me

Postby grandcanyon » Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:14 pm

I disabled ipv6 as I am not sure if this could be my issue. I have also found a Wifi_check script and changed it to use nmcli and then I set a crontab job to check for dropped wifi. I guess I'll have to wait to see if it works when it drops. Kind of hacky but trying to avoid reboots.
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