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Do your Raspberry Pi's Network Interfaces freeze?

My Raspberry Pi 4 kept losing its wlan0 interface. I could usually reconnect via Ethernet but, from time to time, I noticed that the eth0 interface would also go walkabout.

I tried a lot of things but the one described here seems to have cured the problem. I have no idea why it works. It just does.

Step 0 - are you a Windows user?

The script shown in the next step should be created on your Raspberry Pi. Please do not make the mistake of selecting the text, copying it into a text editor on your Windows machine, saving the file, and then moving the file to your Raspberry Pi. Unless you take precautions, Windows will add its 0x0d 0x0a (CR+LF) line endings and those will stop the script from working properly on your Raspberry Pi.

SQLJames

Edit 2

Here are the steps I took to upgrade my nodes when the time came. Make sure that your apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade don't have any errors.

Additionally, on one of my nodes, I had to confirm the grub install location. So It may be good to do this prior to upgrading by confirming the mount point of your boot disk.

apt remove --purge r8168-dkms -y
rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-r8169.conf
sudo sed -i 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="r8168.aspm=0 r8168.eee_enable=0 pcie_aspm=off loglevel=3"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""/' /etc/default/grub
update-grub

morrolinux

What to expect

Graphical aspect may vary depending on your choices in following the instructions below, but the end result should look something like this:

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