Subj : Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm
To   : The Natural Philosopher
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Fri Sep 27 2024 10:09:53

On 27/09/2024 02:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 26/09/2024 21:25, druck wrote:
>> On 26/09/2024 10:00, nev young wrote:
>>> During my attempt to run bookworm over the last 3 months I had the
>>> problem of the wifi dropping as well.
>>> Couldn't be arsed to find out why. Real life gets in the way.
>>> My Hammer / nut solution is run a cron job every 5 min.
>>> If I can't ping the router then    sleep 10
>>> If I still can't ping the router sleep 20
>>> If I still can't ping the router sleep 30
>>> If I still can't ping the router reboot.
>>>
>>> I suspect this won't help you but all my pi zeroes are headless and
>>> this does (did) work. See my bookworm resolution in the other thread.
>>>
>> This is a very poor solution. If you must do an automatic reboot when
>> network connectivity fails, install and configure the watchdog package.
>>
>> Getting to the bottom of the problem is the best thing to do.
>>
>> ---druk
>
> Apropos that, since the more powerful power supply, my Bookworm on the
> PXZW has been rock solid on Wifi.
>
....make that PZ2W..I plead BC - Before Caffeine

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