Re: turn wireless off before suspend

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 +0200, Stojcsics Péter wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am using wireless with ndiswrapper and networkmanager. However i need 
> to unload ndiswrapper module before suspend. The problem is when i try 
> to unload ndiswrapper with modprobe -r or rmmod the whole system 
> freezes. However if i turn wireless of by right clicking in network 
> manager applet and i click disable wireless, then i can unload the 
> module without freeze. I want to make thing automatic, so i can edit 
> prepare.sh (starts before suspend), but i dont know the command to turn 
> wireless off. Anyone can help me? ifconfig eth1 down or 
> /etc/init.d/networking stop dont works. I am using ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic

Please report this bug upstream to the ndiswrapper folks, your system
should _not_ be hanging when you unload ndiswrapper, not should you
_have_ to unload ndiswrapper at all.

What wireless hardware is this btw?

Dan