Beaglebone Black WiFi randomly fails, drops connections and restarts

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Mar 17, 2020, 11:37:16 PM3/17/20

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I have a Beaglebone Black with a RTL8188EUS USB WiFi Adapter.

The adapter is on a powered USB hub keep about 6" from the BBB.

It was recommended in the article to keep the WiFi adapter away

from the HDMI port due to possible interference.

The BBB is running Debian 9.9 IoT with the latest kernel..

Was is happening is at random intervals the WiFi "disassociates"

dropping any connections. Like Chrome and vncviewer into the

BBB's WiFi IP address and resets the WiFi port.

I was reading something about a driver issue however this

info was written a couple of years ago. The article went on to

say if not using the HDMI port to disable it in /boot/uEnv.txt

however what they said to change does not exist. At least

on Debian 9.9 IoT. The document came from adafruit. If you

could point me to what to add or change in uEnx.txt to disable

the HDMI port I will give it a try.

Thanks

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Mar 17, 2020, 11:39:16 PM3/17/20

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