In message <rmiwtkvnbq8.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>, Greg Troxel writes:


>
>My understanding of cardbus on NetBSD is that normal behavior for
>network devices is to power off the slot when the interface is down.
>This may not save much more power than 'full sleep' and thus not be
>justifiable from a power point of view, but it's the way (almost?)
>every other device is.

Beyond that, there are some machines -- many Thinkpads, for example -- 
where you can't suspend with the interfaces on. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb