Rock Pi 4B Dev boot up error Failed to start Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP

[The Dude]

nightly install from https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/nightly/Armbian_5.96.190907_Rockpi-4b_Debian_buster_dev_5.3.0-rc4_minimal.7z

 

Boot up error

Failed to start Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator

Reinstalling the package hostapd resolves this issue.

 

sorry if this is not the correct place to post this error.

 

[The Dude]

Well, I may have spoke too soon.

It seems wifi is unstable and requires removing and readding the kernel modules brcmutil & brcmfmac when wifi stops responding.

 

DMESG errors

ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_station: GET STA INFO failed, -110

brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110

 

what get's me up again without rebooting

sudo rmmod brcmutil

sudo rmmod brcmfmac

sudo insmod /lib/modules/5.3.0-rc4-rockchip64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko

sudo insmod /lib/modules/5.3.0-rc4-rockchip64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko