[maemo-users] [maemo-users] OpenSSH gets stuck after a few seconds

[From: Hermann Lacheiner]

Nils Faerber wrote:
> A nice enhancement to this respect for a next Maemo release would be a
> configurable timeout, or an en- disable switch. Or even better if just
> the sender of the Wifi would be switched off so that it would still
> receive incoming packages...

I have solved this issue with openssh on the client side. Put following
into in .ssh/config:

Host <hostname of nokia>
  ServerAliveInterval 3

Ssh is pinging the nokia device every three seconds so that the wlan
interface on the nokia 770 won't be shut down.

hermann