[Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.dos1 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 02:28:47 CET 2010


On 1/2/10, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> wrote:
>>
>>	>Does anyone else have trouble doing opkg ugrade over gprs? mine hangs
>>	>after a bit.
>>	I never tried that - but make sure the thing doesn't suspend.
>>	
>>
>> The problem happens somewhere between the wget application and the kernel
>> stack.
>> It shows up with larger files being downloaded. Not too large, a few dozen
>> kB is enough.
>> When I see it happening,  I repeat the wget download that opkg was trying
>> to do, and I can see that wget is
>> actually in "stalled" state after the first kB. If I retry the download
>> with the "continue" option, it
>> eventually downloads the whole file, retry after retry, chunk by chunk.
>> This only happens with GPRS, so I assume it is related to kernel or pppd
>> or around this...
>
> Have you tried a different kernel? The kernel is in a separate flash, so
> upgrading the root filesystem
> doesn't change the kernel, it must be installed separately. It could help -
> if it is a kernel problem.
>
> If nothing helps, consider trying a different phone company. The problem
> could be there too.
>
> Helge Hafting

AFAIR there was some problem like that with GSM firmware. Do you have
it upgraded?

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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