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

[Kel Modderman]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 01:24, Per Olofsson wrote:
> 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?

Good question. I guess it depends heavily on the dhcp-client used, and the 
network it is connecting to. The .leases file should come into play, whether 
or not the client is intelligent enough to know its been sleeping long past 
its lease time is another question.

>
> > 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.

You mentioned that you gave it a go, did you have any preliminary code? (I 
don't care if its ugly/non-working, it may give a hint to what is required).

Thanks, Kel.