Raspberry Pi 3 WiFi Temporary Fix

[fistwielder]

I’ve been having WiFi instability issues on multiple Raspberry Pi 3s running RetroPie 3.6

I found a temporary solution. If I run the following command it fixes the Wifi issue until the next boot:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

Is there a permanent solution?
If not, how do I create a script that will run this automatically every time it boots up? Or is there an existing script I can add this to?

[senkun]

[quote=120397]Is there a permanent solution?
If not, how do I create a script that will run this automatically every time it boots up? Or is there an existing script I can add this to?[/quote]

easiest way is to just add the line

sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

to

/etc/rc.local

make sure it’s added above exit 0

[dankcushions]

thanks for this! finally i have stable wifi :)

[fistwielder]

Thank you senkun!
This seems to be a Raspbian bug. Hopefully they will put out a permanently fix soon.

[petrockblog]

I believe it is already fixed in the latest packaged kernel

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[dankcushions]

seems to work without the etc/rc.local line after an apt update/upgrade, so even better! :)

[fistwielder]

Thanks buzz!
Setting this to resolved.

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