Hello everyone,

Hope I am writing on the right forum, if not - my apologies.
I am new to Maemo and have no experience with previous devices, so I can't compare behaviour.

I started to play with new and shiny N900 with noble goal to develop Qt based application. One of steps on the way is to establish ssh to N900. I can't say it does not work completely. It works. Somewhat. I installed the latest openssh, 5.1p1-6 maemo5, and that's what I got.

1. I can not connect at all from Hardy Ubuntu laptop via WiFi. Probably Hardy's problem, read about similar problems on forums.

2. I managed to connect to the same Hardy laptop from N900, not always but sometimes

3. SSH within N900 works fine, from user account to root, the server is running.

4. I sometimes can connect via wires from another laptop running Mepis.

[I]ssh -l root 192.168.0.103
The authenticity of host '192.168.0.103 (192.168.0.103)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ba:6e:e8:d7:a0:c3:3f:57:75:92:4b:b2:ea:37:6b:85.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.103' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@192.168.0.103's password:


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Nokia-N900-42-7:~#
Nokia-N900-42-7:~#
Nokia-N900-42-7:~# ls
Nokia-N900-42-7:~# lsls
-sh: lsls: not found

Nokia-N900-42-7:~#
Nokia-N900-42-7:~# lsls
-sh: lsls: not found
Nokia-N900-42-7:~# ls
Nokia-N900-42-7:~#
Nokia-N900-42-7:~# Read from remote host 192.168.0.103: Connection timed out
Connection to 192.168.0.103 closed.

N900 responds very sloooowwwly. This is session of about 12 minutes. Other way around i.e. N900 ->laptop was much better, not perfect either but at least respond was within seconds, not minutes.

5. I was pinging the N900 to keep wifi alive, here is the result.


ping 192.168.0.103 -i 5
PING 192.168.0.103 (192.168.0.103): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=81.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=2049.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=27 ttl=64 time=2105.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=51 ttl=64 time=2122.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=68 ttl=64 time=13.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=81 ttl=64 time=2042.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=91 ttl=64 time=2052.8 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=111 ttl=64 time=2119.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=135 ttl=64 time=2036.8 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=147 ttl=64 time=2097.8 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=159 ttl=64 time=2057.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=171 ttl=64 time=2116.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=172 ttl=64 time=81.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=183 ttl=64 time=2079.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=207 ttl=64 time=1073.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=219 ttl=64 time=1129.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=231 ttl=64 time=1070.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=255 ttl=64 time=1086.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=267 ttl=64 time=1047.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=279 ttl=64 time=1108.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=291 ttl=64 time=1064.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=303 ttl=64 time=1116.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=339 ttl=64 time=1123.2 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=351 ttl=64 time=1081.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=363 ttl=64 time=1123.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=375 ttl=64 time=1078.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=387 ttl=64 time=1033.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=411 ttl=64 time=1042.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=423 ttl=64 time=42.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=435 ttl=64 time=101.2 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=447 ttl=64 time=61.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=459 ttl=64 time=117.8 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=471 ttl=64 time=77.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=483 ttl=64 time=35.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=495 ttl=64 time=95.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=507 ttl=64 time=55.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=513 ttl=64 time=54.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=525 ttl=64 time=2042.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=526 ttl=64 time=108.8 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=543 ttl=64 time=45.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=555 ttl=64 time=101.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=567 ttl=64 time=47.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=579 ttl=64 time=121.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.103: icmp_seq=615 ttl=64 time=84.5 ms

--- 192.168.0.103 ping statistics ---
633 packets transmitted, 45 packets received, 92% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 13.0/921.4/2122.3 ms


What is your experience with ssh'ing to N900?

Any suggestion will be much appreciated.


Boris.