Contact the LILYGO team directly, they help me for 3 boards normally defaulted to internal antenna, they shipped to me the three boards set to external antenna. They are great to work with.

Try posting same question to lily@lilygo.cc

Try Mouser #: 356-ESP32-DEVKITC32U

Thank you boarchuz, got it working now.

I can execute the command for esp_err_t esp_wifi_set_country(const wifi_country_t *country) I have set the country to "US" with out getting an error. I can not execute the command esp_err_t esp_wifi_get_country(const wifi_country_t *country) country variable type I use is char*. Are there any exampl...

Thank you for the recommendations,
I contacted lilygo via their web site,
they allow me to order directly from them
with resistor in position for external antenna.
I am now awaiting delivery.
Thanks again.

I am not competent or equipped to move the very small resistor, to access the external antenna for the ttgo micro-32 chips.
Are any type of fee based services for this type of issue ?

I also have this behavior and can not find a fix, I have used the WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED test within the loop, it does not appear to be the fix. I have not seen this to occur with my esp8266 modules. I have also seen others post issues with random losing WiFi connection status on esp32. I rec...

tele_player thank you for your input and assist, I am not sure why but I been connected and accessing the ESP32 for three days period, The only change I am aware of is recent windows 10 update on my laptop. Thanks for your inspiration.

the serial output,
Event code "[W][WiFiGeneric.cpp:187] _eventCallback(): Reason: 9 - ASSOC_NOT_AUTHED"
My network name contains a dash or hyphen,
My Network password is 17 characters in length only letters and digits.
imply my WiFi password is a problem ?