what about having network connections inhibit sleep?

[david at lang.hm]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Morgan Collett wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:42 AM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:12 PM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
>>>>> what do people think about the idea of making the existance of established
>>>>> TCP connections inhibit sleep?
>>>>
>>>> What release are you running?  Auto-suspend isn't enabled in production releases.
>>
>> where do I go to discover this?
>>
>> when I handed the machines over for the project one was running a recent
>> (april/may right before the activities were being removed) joyride, and
>> the other was as shipped in december. I think they re-flashed both
>> machines, but I'm not sure what with.
>
> cat /etc/issue tells you the build number.

the one I didn't upgrade is build 656, the one that I had problems with 
(when booted with the o gamekey held down also shows build 656 (which I 
know didn't have auto-suspend enabled) both with kernel 
2.6.22.20071231*3a269


so now I'm as puzzled as you are.

> FWIW I always use verbose for olpc-update:
>
> sudo olpc-update -fvvr joyride-2013
>
> That shows the exact progress of the rsync. (The r is for reboot after
> updating.)

thanks, I hadn't seen anything about flags for olpc-update before.

the hotel I'm staying in has wired internet acces not wireless like I 
expected. I can either upgrade the machines via USB or I can setup my 
linux laptop to act as a gateway (assuming I can get everything talking in 
ad-hoc mode)

David Lang