Per Jessen wrote:
Robert Schweikert wrote:
Hi,
I have an annoying issue with the network on my laptop apparently going to sleep. This is a new machine and I installed openSUSE 12.3 when I received the laptop earlier this week. Thus I have no point of comparison to openSUSE 12.2 or earlier.
The issue is that the wireless light on the laptop is on, but no one is home to answer the call, i.e. I cannot ping the machine or ssh in.
When I log into the machine and ping some other box on my network from the laptop everything comes back to live and I can then go back and ssh in from another machine.
I have disable the PCI power saving mode in the firmware but that did not change the behavior. I have looked in the power management interface of XFCE to see if there is a setting that triggers this behavior but did not see anything obvious.
Does anyone have an idea what would casue this behavior and how I might "fix" it such that the network does not go to sleep.
I'm pretty certain I have seen similar behaviour with 12.2 - my laptop's wireless would go into a power-saving mode and that was it, there was no way to make it power back up. TBH, I have a feeling I just set up a cron that would ping something every 2 minutes. I'll check.
Yep, my laptop has a crontab entry to ping a local machine every 2 minutes. I'm 99% certain I set that up because the wireless kept falling asleep when there was no network activity. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org