[maemo-developers] wlan drop (Re: x11vnc no response to taps on left of screen)

[From: Tuukka Tolvanen]

Hmm, looks like this message never got through to the list, someone was 
asking about it off-list just now... FWIW my solution was to use the 
keepalive options (just -o BatchMode=yes actually) in the sshfs mounting 
that I have routinely up in the environment where I'd care about 
reaching the N800 from the network, to keep the AP happy.

Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:
> Kalle Valo wrote:
>> "ext Tuukka Tolvanen" <tuukka.tolvanen at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> ip=x.x.x.x; s=290; while date -Is; ping -c 1 $ip; do sleep $s;
>>> s=$((s+10)); done
>>>
>>> In my case, taps don't matter, if after network use the device is
>>> pinged at an interval increasing by 10s, it responds to the ping after
>>> the 5min0s interval regardless of when blanking happened, but not
>>> after the subsequent 5min10s interval.
>>>
>>> WLAN disconnect timeout not enabled, scan interval 10min (defaults).
>>> Same effect regardless of different dim/blank timeouts. AP is dlink
>>> DI-524, WPA-PSK (AES). No presence stuff is configured (I'd
>>> guesstimate that is the relevant difference between back when I didn't
>>> see this and now), no email polling.
> 
>> Can you try with WLAN PSM disabled? Run the command below to do that.
>>
>> gconftool-2 --set --type int 
>> '/system/osso/connectivity/IAP/wlan_sleep_timeout' '120000'
> 
> This didn't appear to make any difference.
> 
>> Also could you try without AES? Could you try without encryption at
>> all?
> 
> Same issue with WPA-PSK (TKIP). I couldn't get the two to work together
> with any other settings.
> 
> Hmm. The AP's logs have this to say:
> Disassociated: xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx because idle 300 seconds
> I'm not sure if that indicates bug or feature, that timeout certainly 
> doesn't appear configurable on that side.
> 
> 't.
>