In message <20040703122638.9E6501AE89@berkshire.research.att.com>, "Steven M. B
ellovin" writes:
>In message <86lli1pjsk.fsf@athene.i.eunet.no>, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:
>>"Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@crufty.net> writes:
>>
>>> I just loaded my laptop from a tree updated and built today.
>>> and wm0 no longer works -  device times out.
>>
>>Are you sure that's new?  I've long had trouble with wm0 on my
>>Thinkpad X31, but have fixed it by having scripts (run by apmd and
>>ifwatch) that explicitly ifconfig it down at suspend and when it loses
>>carrier, and up at resume and when it regains carrier.
>
>My daughter has new Thinkpad R51 that's had no such problems, under 
>2.0beta.  I did write an apmd/resume script to restart dhclient, under 
>the assumption that if you've moved you may need new addresses, but not 
>due to any carrier detect bugs.
>
>I have a 2.0G install CD I burned that I can try on that machine in a 
>little while.

I just tried the install CD, built from yesterday's -current source.  
On a Thinkpad R51, wm0 worked perfectly -- it acquired an address via 
dhclient, and was able to ping things.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb