Re: Bcm4311 shuts down on closing lid (intended?)

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Friday 11 January 2008 06:43:59 Ronald wrote:
> >> On Thursday 10 January 2008 20:20:06 Ronald wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> The b43 driver in the linux kernel 2.6.24-rc7 works really good :) . 
> >>> Keep it up! However, one thing is bugging me: Why does the card stop 
> >>> sending/receiving packets when I close the lid? Is this behaviour 
> >>> intended in the new driver? If yes, can I disable it?
> >> 
> >> I guess the machine goes to suspend, right?
> >> You obviously can't use the machine when it's suspended.
> >> 
>  >Nope, it doesn't go into suspend. With the old driver, I could close 
>  >the lid and for example SSH into it. Now, that is not possible. I 
> tried >it with a radio station. It stops playing after a while once I 
> close >the lid.... . The only thing that changes is that the screen 
> light >shuts down (but not the card! it worked before when closing the 
>  >screen!)

I'm pretty sure there are no lid related routines in the wireless
driver, though. ;) So the problem must be somewhere else.


-- 
Greetings Michael.