Subject: Re: wi driver issues [was Re: driver for Lucent WaveLan/IEEE 802.11 committed]
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/20/1999 07:17:17
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:46:40AM +0200, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us> writes:
> 
> > 2.  Suspend mode on the laptop doesn't seem to work correctly once wi0
> >     is probed;  calling apm suspend seems to put it in Standby mode
> >     instead.  (Which, incidentally, seems to be broken on this machine;
> >     it may or may not be related to PR 6279 ... I've put the patch in, 
> >     which seems to clear up the suspend problem, but...)  It's calling
> >     apm_suspend, because /etc/apm/suspend gets called, but the mode
> >     behaves more like standby...
> 
> This is not really related to 6279. The IBM laptop people thinks that
> you shouldn't suspend your computer if there is power applied to any
> of the pcmcia sockets. The reason for this is that the operating
> system might not be able to restore the state of the pcmcia device. I
> guess this means that w98 doesn't.
> 
> In my apm/suspend I ifconfig down all interfaces, and then up then in
> after resume.
> 
> /Johan

This makes sense, except for the fact that my /etc/apm/suspend *does* 
ifconfig all interfaces down.

Anyway, it works as expected when A/C power is not attached.

+j
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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz