StartOS doesn’t see the built-in Wifi of my NUC10, so I use a dongle, which I can install with nmcli, and I can even set it to autoconnect yes. But after half an hour or so, the WiFi connection drops.
Can I switch off some power-saving mode to avoid this, or write it manually into some settings file?
Thanks,
Charona
Being a server, it is always recommended to use an Ethernet connection instead of Wifi for greater reliability and constant uptime.
You could check in your NUC10’s BIOS settings for any power saving or sleep options and disable them.
In your specific case since it is a DIY server it might be related to a missing driver which can be obtained by flashing the StartOS non-free version.
Sounds like driver issues all round to me, including the connection drop. As Alvaro says, there’s a “non-free” image that you hopefully used that contains a number of proprietary drivers to make hardware we don’t support more likely to work, but obviously not every possible driver.
Wifi is going away in upcoming versions of StartOS, so it might not be worth trying to solve.
Hi.
I’m new here.
Do you mean that wifi will no longer be supported by the next version of the operating system?
At the time of writing, the plan was to not even include the ability to connect a server to a WiFi network in upcoming versions of StartOS. The new plan is to do so to cover those in the most extreme situations and recommend against it.
Generally, you should be connecting your server to your router with an ethernet cable. Doing otherwise likely means you’re not using it correctly.
It’s just that the computer room is far away from the router so I’m currently using this successfully. It is dependant on your electrical wiring so I’ve been lucky.
Why can’t the server be kept with the router?
Large house and computer room is far away, and I guess also for security purposes preferring the full node and potentially bitcoin wallet to be more hidden and under lock and key.
Hope that makes sense.
That’s fair. There are a number of ordinary ethernet-Wifi extenders you can run too if you really need wifi. My only point is that wifi should be a last resort. Perhaps more so in a large house. If you have lots of people coming in and out of the house though, you might want to think about rewiring to bring that router into that more secure environment as well. Even if just so that it can’t be kicked, and so you can connect it to whatever UPS setup you have.