WinSCP "Timed out" Error

[Kristopherson05]

Hello, I cant get my WinSCP to work, I have no idea why because it was working a week ago. No mater what I do it says timed out. I have a wifi connection with both my pi and PC but I don't think a wired connection would do much. Please help.

[Threepwood]

F4 to close ES
Then type:
ifconfig

In the prompt to check if your wifi stick is detected and working

There should be a "wlan0" and an ip

If no IP check your wifi configuration in the setup or by hand with

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

If there is an IP try to ping something

sudo ping www.google.com -c 3

Now you should get a response...

If that all looks good, maybe your wifi stick goes to sleep...

[Kristopherson05]

Thanks I'll try that.

[Threepwood]

To find out if your wifi stick falls asleep you can try the following:

cat /sys/module/8192cu/parameters/rtw_power_mgnt

(Works for my edimax mini wifi stick)

When you get an answer with a "1" at the end, the stick will fall asleep, because power management is activated

You can change that with creating a little file

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf

And then you write the following command in the file, and save it

options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0

Then reboot (sudo reboot) and the power management for the wifi stick is deactivated

Was a big problem for me in the past, because file transfers were timing out again and again, now it works without interruption here

[Kristopherson05]

I have the new pi 3 so ya, ill try those commands anyways. Thanks.

[Kristopherson05]

Ok I tried it and it fixed my problem,Thanks :). But with one problem came another, my pi "actively refused the connection". Do you know anything about that?