wpa_supplicant & suspend

[Emilio Scalise]

I think you have an intel 3945 card... If it is, maybe the ipw3945d
daemon gets confused on suspend. I have an 3945 on my notebook, and I
need to unload totally the driver before suspend.....
Perhaps they are working on a new driver that doesn't have that daemon
(called iwlwifi), but I didn't tried it, it's in an early development stage.


Dmitri Hrapof ha scritto:
> Emilio Scalise <emisca <at> email.it> writes:
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>> Do the scripts call ifdown at suspend time?
>>     
> yes
>   
>> If you call ifdown, wpa_supplicant process is killed?
>>     
> yes
>
> Now, after two yeses, it looks strange, but still it doesn't work without
> killall and explicit start. Worse, sometimes I have to ifdown/ifup eth1 by hand
> after resume.
>
>   
>> To control wpa settings from gnome you could try network-manager, but I
>> don't personally like it too much.
>>     
>
> I used network-manager, and it worked well with suspend, but it seemed to me it
> started only after user log-on in Gnome (ie no network without X11). Also, it
> asked for password to unlock the keyring.
> And I was too lazy to install additional programs that make it use the password
> of the current user. Are these issues resolved in Feisty?
>  
>   
>> I prefer use wpa_supplicant in
>> roaming mode. See /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz for an
>> howto (it's the third section).
>>     
>
> Thanks for info!
>
> Dmitri
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