I updated my RuneAudio on RPi2 to the latest build (23/03/2016) and, although I haven't been very lucky so far with the Wi-Fi, this seem to have gotten worse with the latest release.
What is the R8188EU driver version being used in this release? Should I try to update it myself?
More details:
I'm using a Wi-Fi USB dongle that uses the R8188EU.
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[root@RuneAudio ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
It is connecting to a 2.4GHz WPA2 protected WiFi with good signal quality (same room).
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[root@RuneAudio ~]# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"WiFi101" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 10:BF:48:D3:80:00
Bit Rate:72.2 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-**** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=94/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Although, Signl Level varies from anywhere between 30 and 100/100 and tends to increase as I keep querying iwconfig in the prompt.
I also notice a good amount of packages dropped returned by ifconfig
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[root@RuneAudio ~]# ifconfig
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:92:cf:09:61:54 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 82377 bytes 117390377 (111.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 237 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 56350 bytes 5835535 (5.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 3 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
dmesg gives a little hint
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[root@RuneAudio ~]# dmesg | tail
[ 196.627574] R8188EU: ERROR linked_status_chk(wlan0) disconnect or roaming
[ 198.634905] R8188EU: ERROR assoc success
and sometimes this also:
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[ 196.635486] R8188EU: ERROR sta recv deauth reason code(7) sta:10:bf:48:d3:80:00
According to Google, that seems to be a quite common issue with R8188EU chipset and there are many versions out there...
Anyone else with this issue? Or a solution?