TonyMac32 Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 Please post complaints, as of my latest build I'm getting the link drops as well.
freak Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 Simply remove network-manager and use wpa_supplicant. I have close to 60 tinkers now and zero drops using wpa_supplicant.
TonyMac32 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Posted May 15, 2018 Interesting, do you know why? This does not seem to be a problem on kernel 4.4...
freak Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 We dealt with this problem for quite a long time. It started out on tinkeros which prompted us to try armbian... which didn't work any better. I worked with an asus engineer who determined that the disconnects were because of network-manager scanning for a better connection. While the problem is likely not network-manager itself and rather how the drivers handle it, there are a few work arounds. Asus suggested setting the bssid which we tried and it did not help. There is also a patched version of network-manager called network-manager-noscan which supposedly fixed this problem. I never tried it. We switched to wpa_supplicant and have 100% success staying connected. We don't want the end users messing with the network-manager settings anyway which show up in the task manager by default. Read the section in the link below titled "Regular network disconnects, latency and lost packets (WiFi)" https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager 1
TonyMac32 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Posted May 15, 2018 Ok, the 4.4 uses a newer driver than mainline, that may explain it. It also used a newer version than Asus for some time, that is not the case now however.
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