On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 03:30:59PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> So, if I do 'apm -z' on my Thinkpad 380Z (1.4K), it appears to sleep, but
> it chews up battery and stays warm.
> 
> In a previous life, I'm fairly sure I had it "properly" shutting down.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> A data point:  It used to require you to hit power to wake it up, now it
> doesn't.

Thinkpads will not enter suspend mode if any PCMCIA cards are
powered on.

I suspect what you need to do is to ifconfig down (thereby
powering them off) any PCMCIA network interfaces in /etc/apm/* .

See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/power-mgmt/index.html .


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Soren