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Raspberry Pi constantly drop wifi and won't be able to reconnect itself. Run this script on a cron job on a regular basis to keep headless pi connected.
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#!/bin/bash | |
#================================================================= | |
# Script Variables Settings | |
wlan='wlx801f02b56d73' | |
gateway='192.168.0.1' | |
alias ifup='/sbin/ifup' | |
alias ifdown='/sbin/ifdown' | |
alias ifconfig='/sbin/ifconfig' | |
#================================================================= | |
date | |
echo " - Auto Reconnect Wi-Fi Status for $wlan Script Started "; | |
# Only send two pings, sending output to /dev/null as we don't want to fill logs on our sd card. | |
# If you want to force ping from your wlan0 you can connect next line and uncomment second line | |
ping -c2 ${gateway} > /dev/null # ping to gateway from Wi-Fi or from Ethernet | |
# ping -I ${wlan} -c2 ${gateway} > /dev/null # only ping through Wi-Fi | |
# If the return code from ping ($?) is not 0 (meaning there was an error) | |
if [ $? != 0 ] | |
then | |
# Restart the wireless interface | |
ifdown --force wlan0 | |
ifup wlan0 | |
sleep 5 | |
ifup wlan0 | |
fi | |
ping -I ${wlan} -c2 ${gateway} > /dev/null | |
date | |
echo " - Auto Reconnect Wi-Fi Status for $wlan Script Ended "; |
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