Re: More WiFi mischief in Bookworm

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:26:46 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:
 

After a month or so of working well, the wifi has again started acting
strange after a series of software updates on a Pi5 running Bookworm.

 
I have a wi-fi card in an older (Core i7) machine, running hostapd. That
works fine, unless I transfer multi-gigabytes of data to my laptop. That
gets the wi-fi into a stalled state. At that point I remember I shouldn’t
have done that, and switch to an Ethernet connection to continue the
transfer.
 
When I try again some hours later, the wi-fi seems to have cleared its
trouble.
 
Not sure if this is related, but just thought I’d mention it; are you
transferring lots of data?

Generally, the problem seemed load independent.

I say "seemed" because shortly after posting my gripe I went back to
the Pi and tried to run ifconfig wlan0 up, whereupon the response was
"...prohibited by rfkill..". That I recognized as a localization problem.
I hadn't changed localization, it must have been an update.

I'd previously suspected as much and gone through the hoops of setting
country, keyboard, wifi, etc. more than once to no avail, but I did it
again and this time the wifi started working.

In the meantime I've moved the Pi5 to a location that allows wired
networking. It's much less convenient, but for now I'll keep it there.

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska