[Bug 38540] Re: ACPI-ndiswrapper on Aspire 3000 laptop doesn't wake until function button pressed

[Ian Soutar]

I believe it is an ACPI problem.   The WIFI modem is normally asleep and 
cannot be used until the computer is put to sleep and awakened again.   
It is not an ndiswrapper issue although it is necessary to use 
ndiswrapper.   There is a light on the computer that shows the WIFI is 
awake and running.   After a cold boot you cannot use the WIFI until you 
do the sleep / wake thing.  

I will try the test when I get home ... both the Acer 3000 and Acer 5000 
face the same problem.

Ubuntu is the ONLY distro that allows the WIFI to wake up ... so you 
guys have it almost right!

Actually that is not quite true ... Puppy linux, when you use the kernel 
command acpi=off causes all peripherals to wake up.   In this case it 
works fine but of course the computer cannot be put to sleep or to 
hibernate.

Ian.


Andreas Gnau said the following on 28/03/07 11:20 AM:
> Maybe I'm a little bit confused, tired or maybe it is my lack of
> language skills, but could you please outline the problem again? Is this
> rather an ACPI-problem or an ndiswrapper-problem?
>
> >From what I understood your wifi (or is it the modem?) which you are
> running with ndiswrapper works without any problems, but you have to
> push a keycombo in order to make it work again after waking the laptop
> up. Please provide lspci and lspci -n, urls to the driver(s) and the
> output of dmesg after enabling it again after waking up.
>
>

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ACPI-ndiswrapper on Aspire 3000 laptop doesn't wake until function button pressed
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38540