Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Wifi problems with whiite-linux

[Alec W. <al...@gm...>]

Quick update: I've found a workaround. If I have it constantly pinging my
router (ie have ping as an init script), it doesnt disconnect (although it
can slow down at times). So it seems it must have been disconnecting because
of inactivity. Is there any way to disable that?

On 13 June 2010 10:52, Alec Wright <al...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi there, I've been having some really odd problems with the wifi on my
> wii. I'm using debian lenny with the whiite isobel kernel, and while my
> wireless connects fine, it seems to progressively die over the course of
> about 2-5 minutes. When i first boot it up, it works fine. I can ssh in and
> it works normally, with no significant delay. But after a couple of minutes,
> ssh starts getting laggy (i type something and it takes a few seconds to
> respond) before eventually freezing altogether. At this point it stops
> responding to pings too. This happened when it was literally a metre away
> for the access point. Oddly enough, when i moved it about 15 metres away, it
> worked for longer before the wireless locked up, but it still happened
> eventually. I thought it could be some sort of memory issue, with the wii
> only having 64MB RAM, so I plugged a flash drive into the usb port with a
> swap partition and swapon'ed it. Didn't help though. Wifi's fairly critical
> to my application, since I was hoping to plug a hard drive into the USB port
> and use it as a NAS sort of thing.
> Has anyone else had this problem? Or know where I can start with resolving
> it?
>
> Thanks for your time, and for all the great work the developers have done
> so far with porting linux to this console :)
>