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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:11:11 +0100
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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.

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“Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of 
a car with the cramped public exposure of 
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