Re: suspend/resume wired

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Robert Love <rml novell com>:

> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:05 -0400, Bill Moss wrote:
> 
> > Yes, our patches are the same. I agree that these patches may not be the 
> > best solution. When NM wakes it jumps to the code that 'searches for 
> > connections'. The first thing that should happen is that all available 
> > devices should be brought up before the search begins. NM is not bring 
> > up wired devices, only wireless. If the wired device is not up, NM 
> > cannot detect a wired link so it assumes that no wire is plugged in. I 
> > expect that Dan Williams may have the answer here.
> 
> Ahah!  Why are wireless devices coming up but not wired?  That is the
> crux of my uncertainty.

In my case the wireless comes up because of the wireless hotplug support, but
wired interfaces aren't part of that configuration.  At least I've notices that
my ath0 device kick off a dhclient on resume on my FC3 machine.

> > I believe NM is releasing DHCP leases on sleep so there is no issue of 
> > leases expiring while NM is asleep.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> 	Robert Love

-derek

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