rubymp18

I have been playing with the lamobo for quite a while. I actually do not like bananian. Tried openwrt also did not like it. The wifi seems to only operate for a bit while.
Just tried the last version of armbian, kernel 4.2.3, the wifi drops after a few minutes, and I can only use it again if I close and open the wifi icon in my macbook. Interestingly enough, if I keep a ping in a shell it seems to last longer. Will do some more testing, though I am inclined to say the onboard wifi is so bad it is not usable.

Been investigating a little. Unfortunately did not progress more, because the MicroSD card finally died. It seems the wifi driver has a long standing bug in Debian and derivates. I think I also saw a passing message about this either here or in SinoVoip board. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1365844I also found a very interesting explanation for a problem of not being able to not select 40Mhz channel bandwidth - http://www.brunsware.de/blog/gentoo/hostapd-40mhz-disable-neighbor-check.html

The chipset is cheap & crap as well the drivers.
 
There are few alternative drivers around but I am not aware if they are any better. I think the driver on 3.4.x works better.
 
BTW:
One alternative is located in /usr/local/bin ... blacklist kernel driver and load that one.

last year i got one of the first batch of the bananapi r1
and was happy when it was back in their shop.
 
This device is wasted Money.
 
They didn't react on bug-report's.
 
So i contacted the wlan-chip-company directly.
 
They said that that the rtl8192 is the cheapest model they have.
They told them that 300mbit isn't possible with that chip and they should use the more expensive.
in theory than chip can handle 300 mbit BUT it was designed as lowcost/lowlevel.
An they implemented a mechanism in hardware that detect when the two wlan chips are bonded per software
and do a resett ;-)
 
what is possible with this chip ist 2 different wlan's with 150 mbit.

Any recommendations?
 
http://wiki.lamobo.org/index.php/Lamobo_R1S
New version is coming out but with Mediatek wifi which is as crappy as Realtek.
 
I think we'll get more cheap (but with a little better hw) router boards soon.