image vmlinuz-4.9.25-ti-r32 may break networking

[Mark Copper]

Could be broken hardware as well.  OTOH BBBW did work out of the box but networking failed after kernel update while everything else seems OK.

Symptoms: Immediately after flashing image, ifconfig and ip show usb interfaces but not wlan0--same as when booting from SD card. Later network probe processes hang and do not return (ip, ifconfig, lshw for example, but not lsusb). Nor can these processes be killed.

Would like to know if anyone else is seeing this.  Would also be glad to provide additional information.  I also have additional BBBW cards so could try to duplicate.

Hope I'm not too far off base. Thanks for reading.

[Mark Copper]

For the record this appears to have been a hardware problem--I had no trouble flashing a new BBBW with the same SD image. Apologies for the noise.

[Mark Copper]

This is the strangest thing (for a finite state machine). But now the BBBW that worked fine Sunday now exhibits the same behavior: on first light networking devices are discovered and configured. An undetermined but short while later wlan0 does not respond; ifconfig command engenders a process that hangs and cannot be killed by kill -9.

So now this has occurred on 2 new BBBW's. The first time it occurred the machine was powered through USB so quality of power source seems less likely.  Best assumption now seems to be problem with the 4.9.25-ti-r32 kernel.  So I'll test with older kernel for now.

Would love to know if anyone else has had success with current kernel on BBBW.

Thanks.