Re: network goes down on close of laptop lid

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:21 -0400, John H. wrote:
> no mention of anything regarding network in gnome-power-preferences

Do you have a 'gnome-power-manager' process running?  There aren't any
preferences to control network stuff for gnome-power-manager; it just
puts networking to sleep when the machine goes to sleep.  What distro
and what version?

Dan

> On 9/8/06, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:33 -0400, John H. wrote:
> > > it's just set to blank screen...
> > >
> > > On 9/8/06, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> > > > On 9/8/06, John H. <mistamaila gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > networkmanager shuts down wireless connection when i close laptop lid.
> > > > > how do i stop?
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Dan
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