A recent update to the VAAPI driver now causes my laptop to lose its IP connection approximately once per hour, and the only way to resolve the issue is to reboot the laptop.
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Just to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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(My desktop has an Intel ethernet chip that loses its connection unpredictably. It dates from 2015-ish and uses the e1000e driver.)
Have you tried explicitly disconnecting, waiting a while, say a minute, then connecting, using the icon in the system tray? That often works for me.
Another trick I use is to run a ping indefinitely:
When this is running, problems are much fewer. If I suspect something’s wrong, I can tail -f the log file to see if the connection has a problem.Code:ping_time=4 router=192.168.1.1 log=~/ping.log ping -i $ping_time $router >> $log
Regards, John Little
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