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  From: Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com>
  To  : apmd-list <apmd-list@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 22:32:54 -0500

[Fwd: 3.1.9]

Dear apmd-list

It might be a good idea to add

ifconfig eth0 down

to apmd in the suspend section. I did this with one
difficult laptop, and it helped a lot.

It should not, I expect, be installed as a default,
but as an option that could be commented out.

What do you think?

Jont

From: 
       David Hinds <dhinds@zen.stanford.edu>
                                                                      20:28

 Subject: 
       Re: 3.1.9
    To: 
       Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com>




On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 04:45:03PM -0500, Jont Allen wrote:
> Dave
> 
> Now that I have 3.1.9 working for some days, I see some minor differences.
> Before I always released my NIC before suspend. I never pulled it out
> without shutting it down. Now it hardly ever shuts down on request,
> but gives an IOCTL() error.
> 
> The only way I have been able to shut down the card is to pull it out
> (80% of the time that is).
> 
> Has the proceedure changed from 3.0.0? How should I be terminating
> the session before I suspend?

Yes, the scripts try to notice if you've got open connections.

I've been meaning to add a way to tell cardctl "yes, just shut down
the device, whether it is active or not", but you can't do that now.
Do "ifconfig eth0 down" first, if you want.

-- Dave


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On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:09:39PM -0500, Jont Allen wrote:
> 
> If these laptops work, then you do not need apmd_proxy. In that case
> would not be a problem. I have an IBM 560X think pad, and the BIOS doesn't 
> work. Which ones work? That would be a great thing to put on a web
> site.

Maybe, but it isn't something I have the time or resources to do.

> Yes, I agree, not the default. But why not commented out?

That would be fine with me.

> I only mean it should be installed for laptops (mobile systems).

As far as I know, no one does distributions only for laptops.  And
that doesn't address laptops with built-in ethernet.

-- Dave