Re: Dell I8000, 2.4.8-ac5 and APM

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 16:57:48 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> georgn@somanetworks.com said:
> > To be honest, I don't really use suspend/resume so I can't answer. I
> > did, however, get it working for myself while at OLS (under
> > 2.4.6-ext3). The trick there was remove my PCMCIA (3c59x) network card
> > and keep it in my knapsack for the duration of the conference.
>
> This one has the built-in eepro100. That goes AWOL on suspend too, but
> that's solved by saving the PCI configuration space on suspend and
> restoring it on resume because their BIOS is too crap to do it for us.

Hum. Current 3c59x.c will do that also if the `enable_wol=1' module
parm is provided.

I occasionally hear rumours about 3c59x failing with suspend/resume,
but It Works For Me and nobody has stepped up with a solid problem
description. If someone _can_ reproduce this and is prepared to
work it a bit, please let me know.

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