[opensuse] Wi-Fi after suspend
In a current thread, the OP says that when his laptop machine returns from Suspend, his Wi-Fi connection is restored automatically in a few seconds. Mine doesn't behave that way, and I wish it would. If the difference between the two behaviors is not something beyond my control, what causes it? The laptop is Dell Vostro with Intel 5300AGN wireless chip. It is running oS v11.2. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:58, Stan Goodman rote:
In a current thread, the OP says that when his laptop machine returns from Suspend, his Wi-Fi connection is restored automatically in a few seconds. Mine doesn't behave that way, and I wish it would. If the difference between the two behaviors is not something beyond my control, what causes it?
The laptop is Dell Vostro with Intel 5300AGN wireless chip. It is running oS v11.2.
Couple different things... the reference oS version in that previous thread was openSUSE 11.3 not 11.2. The laptop was an Asus EEE using the Linux native ath9k WiFi driver, not a Dell Vostro with an Intel 5300 AGN WiFi chipset. That said, the 2.6.31 kernel in 11.2 should fully support the WiFi chip in the Dell. I use both Ubuntu 10.10 and openSUSE 11.3 on the EEE 1005HA netbook, but have also recently installed/tested PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, RedHat and Gentoo, and all current Linux versions handle suspend to RAM very smoothly once it's set up (eg in LXDE, I had to install the Gnome Power Management tools to enable the suspend to RAM). When you say your laptop doesn't behave that way... what happens? It never recovers from a suspend to RAM? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 31 January 2011 13:18:27 C wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:58, Stan Goodman rote:
In a current thread, the OP says that when his laptop machine returns from Suspend, his Wi-Fi connection is restored automatically in a few seconds. Mine doesn't behave that way, and I wish it would. If the difference between the two behaviors is not something beyond my control, what causes it?
The laptop is Dell Vostro with Intel 5300AGN wireless chip. It is running oS v11.2.
Couple different things... the reference oS version in that previous thread was openSUSE 11.3 not 11.2. The laptop was an Asus EEE using the Linux native ath9k WiFi driver, not a Dell Vostro with an Intel 5300 AGN WiFi chipset.
...which is why I needed to describe what I have on this laptop.
That said, the 2.6.31 kernel in 11.2 should fully support the WiFi chip in the Dell.
I use both Ubuntu 10.10 and openSUSE 11.3 on the EEE 1005HA netbook, but have also recently installed/tested PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, RedHat and Gentoo, and all current Linux versions handle suspend to RAM very smoothly once it's set up (eg in LXDE, I had to install the Gnome Power Management tools to enable the suspend to RAM).
When you say your laptop doesn't behave that way... what happens? It never recovers from a suspend to RAM?
Sorry I was not detailed enough. when I wake the machine up from Suspend, it announces yjsy yjr connection had been broken becuase of a timeout. It doesn't reconnect automatically, but I can make it connect by clicking again in the network manager.
C.
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On 1/31/2011 2:58 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
In a current thread, the OP says that when his laptop machine returns from Suspend, his Wi-Fi connection is restored automatically in a few seconds. Mine doesn't behave that way, and I wish it would. If the difference between the two behaviors is not something beyond my control, what causes it?
The laptop is Dell Vostro with Intel 5300AGN wireless chip. It is running oS v11.2.
My WiFi on my aging Dell 9400 laptop (Broadcom BCM4311 wifi chip) restores perfectly after resume running 11.3. Too Perfectly in fact. While connected to cat5, and/or having previously unchecked Enable Wireless in KNetworkManager, I find that it is re-enabled after every resume from suspend. Technically it seems to me that once un-checked, wifi should remain inactive across a suspend, and Knetworkmanager should remember and enforce this state. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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