From: Blaine B. <bgb...@gm...> - 2012-02-29 15:43:11
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Thanks Steve. I've heard from Don @ Gumstix that you're the man to talk to about this. See inline. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Steve Sakoman <sa...@gm...> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:18 PM, roystonvasey <mik...@ma...> > wrote: > > Dear Blaine, > > I still have the problem. > > I ran out of time trying to resolve the problem. > > We have 25 Overo Fire based units in the field. They all exhibit the same > > problem though the up time varies between different units. The worst one > > looses connection every 2 - 3 minutes the best one normally stays up for > > about 28 hours, most stay up for 7 - 10 minutes. > > A number of people have reported this and I have been trying to > reproduce it without success. > > Can you tell me a little more about your setup (not just Mike but > anyone who has the issue)? > > 1. What kernel version (and is it a standard Gumstix build or have you modified it)? > Linux overo 2.6.34 #1 Wed Oct 20 10:22:48 PDT 2010 armv7l GNU/Linux After having problems with newer builds, we found that our stock build was best. Newer builds manifested other wifi problems, such as not being able to connect at all, wifi not being recognized, etc. When our wifi chip works, it works great... until it stops working (blue led turns off). > 2. What brand(s) of access point are you using in your installations? > Rosewell (recently new), D-Link, and two of unknown brand (but I could really check if necessary) > 3. Are you using open or secured networks, if secured what type? > Tried with open, WEP, and WPA-2. All three have failed. > 4. Are you using the standard Gusmtix antenna? > Yes. > 5. Have you noticed any correlation between signal strength and rate > of connection loss? > I thought this may have been the case, but I don't know if it is any more. We moved our router to across the building but it did not make the problem worse. > 6. Are there any "interesting" console messages around the time the > connection is lost (i.e. CRDA update messages)? > The only one we ever have seen, and this was a month ago and no longer is the case, was the following: > 7. Any other observations that might help me to reproduce this? > > I'd love to get to the bottom of this, but my test systems have been > running for many days connected to Airport and Netgear APs with no > connection loss. > > Steve > > > As you observed after a connection is lost ifconfig and iwconfig still > > report the interface to be up. > > I run a cron job every 5 minutes to check that there is still a > connection > > by pinging 'always up' and restarting the network if needed. > > > > #!/bin/sh > > # Tests network configuration > > # Restarts any failed connections > > > > wifi_alive() > > { > > if ping -q -w 2 -c 2 "${ALWAYS_UP_IP}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > echo "WiFi network is up." > > else > > echo "WiFi network is down." > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > fi > > } > > > > ALWAYS_UP_IP="4.2.2.1" > > > > if /sbin/ifconfig | /bin/grep -q wlan0; then > > echo "Using wifi (wlan0) for connectivity." > > wifi_alive > > fi > > > > > > Cheers Mike. > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://gumstix.8.n6.nabble.com/Overo-Wifi-is-turned-off-after-2-3-minutes-of-inactivity-tp1590552p4530055.html > > Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > > _______________________________________________ > > gumstix-users mailing list > > gum...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |