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

[Per Olofsson]

Kel Modderman:
> 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.

I'm using the dhcp-client package, which is the default DHCP client in
Debian.

> > 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).

I think something like this for the file
/etc/acpi/suspend.d/55-down-interfaces.sh:

--- 55-down-interfaces.sh~	2006-10-08 20:27:04.000000000 +0200
+++ 55-down-interfaces.sh	2006-10-08 20:33:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
 
 # And shut them down
 for x in $INTERFACES; do
-    ifdown $x;
+    if [ -e /var/run/wpa_supplicant/$x ]; then
+        wpa_action $x stop;
+    else
+        ifdown $x;
+    fi
     ifconfig $x down;
 done

-- 
Pelle