Bug#445917: gnome-power-manager: network not correctly restarted on resume

[Jerry Quinn]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le mardi 09 octobre 2007 à 01:21 -0400, Jerry Quinn a écrit :
>> When I suspend my laptop with a wireless connection, and then resume,
>> networking fails to resume correctly.  This is a T60p with atheros chipset
>>
>> If I disable gnome-power-manager, things work as expected.  The acpi-support
>> scripts ifdown and ifup the network on suspend and resume respectively.
> 
> Does it still happen with gnome-power-manager 2.20 and hal 0.5.10 from
> unstable?

It still sometimes happens.  I think the real issue is that madwifi 
doesn't really handle power management properly, and therefore must be 
removed and reinserted to the kernel during suspend and resume.  The 
ifupdown scripts seem to handle this.  gnome-power-manager does not.