Hi Harry
I upgraded to version 2025.04 (2363). Afterwards I lost access the external WIFI dongle (Edimax EW-7811UTC). I then downloaded a new copy and re-flashed to the micro SD. Still, no access to the dongle. The onboard PI4 WIFI is accessible and functioning. Below is the generated log file.
Thanks.
John
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Hi Harry & John,
I am experiencing the same as John on the same endpoint, except my dongle is a WiFi 5 Realtek 802.11ac (USB 3.0). The Ropiee recognizes the dongle (as it always has) except now: I hit play on some music, it starts playing, and about 10 seconds later the dongle wi-fi connection cuts out.
I tested using the dongle on all Pi USB ports, with different DACs, as well connecting to a mesh network and a non-mesh network, all with the same result. This dongle has been working correctly for over a year until now.
My internal Pi wifi-is working fine.
If it matters, my core is Rock.
Thank you!
just confirmed that my wifi dongle had been working as far back as, at least, early 2022… so something definitely seems to have changed.
Yes, of course. RoPieee evolves and gets updates.
External USB dongles are 99% of the time based on the Realtek chipset. Which has very crappy driver support, which means that it is a ‘hit and miss’. That means that I cannot guarantee they work. I’ve got myself a large set of dongles collected over the years, but if a specific dongle does not work after a kernel upgrade there’s not much I can do.
Can you send me feedback? So make sure you’ve got the dongle configured, but also a connection over wire. And then send me feedback.
Thanks
Of course - definitely understand things change and you can’t guarantee every dongle works 
By “feedback” do you mean some kind of log? If so, how do I generate it? I looked for a log download/export function, but didn’t find anything.
Thanks again!
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