Re: NetworkManager and suspend

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l yahoo com>]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:21:45 +0100, Rene Rask wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 00:27 +0100, Paul Ionescu wrote:
>> I have an e1000 card, and it does not need to rmmod before suspending.
>> But when I suspend/resume, there is a link down/up event like (only the
>> UP posted  here ):
>> Feb  3 21:33:16 t41 kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up
>> 100 Mbps Full Duplex
>> 
>> So NM sees a device with a link change to UP and tries to connect on it.
>> Isn't this the way it was supposed to happen ? Why do we need more acpi
>> events ?
>> 
>> 
> My report was regarding a wireless ipw2200 card which doesn't have link
> events.

Ups, that's bad.
So, how do we know that we are associated or not ?
IMHO. there should be some sysfs entry where we have the association
status, and events related to it.