On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:46 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:14 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:14 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:56 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:31 +0200, Markus Becker wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:45 -0400, Scott Rossillo wrote: > > > > > > >> I have a similar problem with sleeping my laptop at work and then > > > > > > >> going home to connect to my wireless network. I usually resort to > > > > > > >> opening a terminal and restarting the Network Manager service on the > > > > > > >> occasions that the applet refuses to scan for wireless networks in > > > > > > >> timely fashion. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rescan on wake from suspend or hibernate might be the way to solve this? > > > > > > > > > > > > Did you have a look in /etc/hibernate/common.conf? > > > > > > At least on Debian there is an option "EnableNMReconnect yes". > > > > > > > > > > > > BR, > > > > > > Markus Becker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Peter Clifton > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Electrical Engineering Division, > > > > > > > Engineering Department, > > > > > > > University of Cambridge, > > > > > > > 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, > > > > > > > Cambridge > > > > > > > CB3 0FA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > > > > > NetworkManager-list gnome org > > > > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > > > > NetworkManager-list gnome org > > > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > On Ubuntu Gutsy beta, there is no such directory '/etc/hibernate/'. > > > > > Also, I'm not able to hibernate the laptop at all, only Suspend. Maybe > > > > > that file normally handles both, but this is the first I've heard of it. > > > > > > > > On Fedora, gnome-power-manager is the thing that tells NM to sleep and > > > > wake up. Maybe that's the case for Ubuntu as well, I don't know. But > > > > please check and make sure your distro is correctly telling NM to go to > > > > sleep and waking up. The behavior you describe is consistent with NM > > > > _not_ going to sleep, which is should be doing. > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > > > NetworkManager-list gnome org > > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > > Primarily for my own curiosity and so I can put some details in a bug > > > report if needed, what would be the proper way to tell NM to go to sleep > > > and wake up? Is there a way to broadcast a message over dbus and > > > anything listening that receives the message goes to sleep or wakes up > > > as appropriate? Or would a message need to be sent specifically to NM > > > for each? > > > > Historically, there has not been a system service that sends out dbus > > signals on sleep/wake. That should probably be HAL if anything. But > > since power policy is managed int he _session_, and not system wide, > > it's unclear exactly how that would work. In any case, you must call > > the 'sleep' and 'wake' methods like so: > > > > dbus-send --system > > --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager > > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep > > > > and 'wake'. > > > > Dan > > > > > I think the problem may actually be in the system configuration, and > both gnome-power-manager and NM are doing exactly what they're told to > do. After some poking around in the gnome-power-manager source, I found > that it does send the sleep/wake commands to NM if the key > '/apps/gnome-power-manager/general/network_sleep' is set to true. If > this is false, the sleep/wake signals won't be sent. When I opened up > the GConf config tool, this value was false for me. I'm not able to > test it yet, but in about 2 hours I'll be able to check and post back if > this works. In the meantime, if someone else is able to verify that the > value is false and NM properly rescans after waking up with the value > set to true that would be great :) > This seemed to work nicely when transitioning from campus to a friend's place to home. I feel like kicking myself if this was all I needed to do to solve this problem the whole time :) -- Joel Goguen http://jgoguen.net/ The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it. -- P. Medawar
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