Re: network goes down on close of laptop lid

["Derek Broughton" <auspex pointerstop ca>]

On 9/8/06, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> > > It sounds like your laptop is going into suspend which is stopping
> > > NetworkManager.  Is your laptop set to just blank the screen when the
> > > lid is closed?
>
> Check to see if your power management daemon (possibly
> gnome-power-manager) is telling NM to sleep when the lid gets closed.
> NM doesn't do any power management on its own (which is a bug but
> historically there wasn't anything to listen to), but instead relies on
> a program like gnome-power-manager telling it to sleep.

I believe some laptops can be (or perhaps, are always)
hardware-configured to shut down the radio transmitter on lid closure
- which should show up in /var/log/syslog at the time you close the
lid, I would think.
--
derek