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Sporadic freezing/loss of WiFi connection on a Raspberry Pi 3B+

I have two identical Raspberry Pi 3B+ (RPi3B+) running OctoPrint to control my two 3D printers and provide a livestream of the connected webcams when needed. A few months ago I noticed that the "newer" of the two RPIs sporadically lost the WiFi connection after a few minutes or hours. To check if its a a hardware problem I swapped the SD cards between both PIs, but the problem moves with the SD Card, which means its a software problem. First attempts:

  • Update system (dist-upgrade)
  • Changes the location of the Pi to ensure that the WiFi signal is better.
  • A WiFi reconnect script i used before with a Raspberry Zero W.
  • Disabled Power Management with ´sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off´

I have connected a LAN cable, waited until the connection was interrupted and tried various commands to restore the connection. Unfortunately nothing helped. I found some errors in the syslog like mailbox indicates firmware halted and some GitHub issues from RaspberryPi, but no final solution:

wlan freezes in raspberry pi 3B+
PI 3B+ wifi crash, firmware halt and hangs in dongle
brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_hostmail: mailbox indicates firmware halted

Then I continued to search for differences between the two PIs and found out that the "working Pi" had older drivers 7.45.154 that the "problem Pi", who had 7.45.229. I downgraded the firmware to 7.45.154 (/lib/firmware/brcm - my older Pi had these files) and disabled power management. Now, after some weeks of 8h printing each and enabled webcam no problems. With 7.45.229 and also disabled power management it freezes. The firmware files were the only thing I changed.

Working WiFi Firmware/Driver:

dmesg | grep brcmfmac
Firmware: BCM4345/6 wl0: Feb 27 2018 03:15:32 version 7.45.154 (r684107 CY) FWID 01-4fbe0b04

Final solution (tl;dr):

  1. Disabled Power Management with ´sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off´
  2. Downgrade drivers/firmware (brcm_7.45.154.tar to /lib/firmware/brcm)

Could not find any disk on this device. PRTG error code: PE188

I got this error when I tried to add a SNMP HP ProLiant Physical Disk Sensor for HP Proliant DL 380 G7 with Windows 2012 R2 in our monitoring solution from Paessler (PRTG). The SNMP HP ProLiant System Health, Network and Storage Controller Sensor works fine.

HPE Insight Management Agents and HPE Insight Management WBEM Providers for Windows are installed.

An SNMP walk against OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.5 (used by Paessler for this sensor) works without errors but also without result.

I found some guys with the same probleme and a solution: The problem was the disk (controller) driver. Installed was v8.0.4.0, which seems to be a standard Microsoft driver. With the original HPE controller driver (for us 62.28.0.64) it works.

 

Disable Apple HFS driver helps with Veeam Entpoint Backup and VSS errors

Do you have problems with Veeam Entpoint Backup or Windows Backup fails with VSS error 12289 on a iMac? Just disable the Apple HFS driver and reboot. I use Autoruns from Sysinternals for that:

After that you have no access to the OS X HFS partitions, but for me this is no problem. I haven't use that any time.

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