Bug#390884: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#390884: doesn't work well with acpi-support

Per Olofsson pelle at debian.org
Tue Oct 3 15:24:15 UTC 2006


Kel Modderman:
> This ifdown/ifup is unrequired with nicely behaved modules (eg ipw2200), as 
> they can sustain a link via wpasupplicant during suspend/resume cycle.

Ah, yes, I have such a card and that works. Thanks!

BTW, does dhclient handle all such cases without restart?

> In my understanding, such a workaround was discussed in #383907 (though maybe 
> not as complete as you refer to), and the basis behind that was already made 
> so. I never did hear back from Reinhard about that.

> As I use powersaved to take care of this stuff, it makes me less
> familiar with how acpi-support operates.

It does a lot of ugly things, actually, and might be replaced by
pm-utils anyway.

Still, acpi-support is currently included in the laptop task, so it
would be nice if it worked.

Thanks for all your nice work on wpasupplicant!

-- 
Pelle




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