Re: reconnect after sleeping

[Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>]

--On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 09:06:45 -0500 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> .... I've got vague hand-wavy
> plans to get rid of the deps on pm-utils entirely, or at least move them
> into NetworkManager for the time being.  No idea when that would happen
> though; but if somebody wanted to spearhead it that would be awesome.
> First step would be convincing pm-utils to drop the NM suspend/resume
> scripts, and then move them into NetworkManager git for both 0.7 and
> master.  Next up, we try to figure out how much work we really do need
> to do for suspend/resume; maybe we can get uevents for them instead of
> relying on pm-utils or something.

It seems to me this would be a good opportunity to handle WOL properly. I've never been able to get WOL to work, and messing around with ethtool shouldn't be necessary anyway. It seems to be something that just isn't easy on Linux. If NM were to take control of suspending the network devices then it should be easy for it to set up the conditions for WOL to work.

Another good reason to press ahead with this?

Rick