[ltp] Suspend woes and strange hardware quirks

[John Locke]

Hello,

Thanks for all your help. The advice given here has definitely gotten me 
closer, but I'm still not quite there...

André Wyrwa wrote:

>Hei,
>
>it seems to me that all of your three suspend/resume problems should be
>solvable by compiling the according drivers as modules and unloading
>them before suspend / reloading after. These problems (with also, usb
>and network drivers) have been reported a lot here.
>
>So reconfigure your kernel, set these drivers to modules, recompile and
>adjust your /etc/acpi/actions scripts to unload/reload the modules. I'm
>sorry i can't give you detailed information on that for i'm not a
>mandrake user and i only half adjusted my own scripts so far.
>
>  
>
Okay. I did that, except for Alsa, and now my USB mouse is detected on 
startup again. I'm still having a couple of weird quirks though.

I think one of the issues is the Madwifi driver. If I unload the USB 
modules, unload the madwifi modules, and power off the Alsa driver, 
everything suspends and resumes perfectly--until I start using 
networking again.

When I reload the madwifi modules and associate, it works until I start 
using the network. The first bit of traffic comes through (pings, 
initial connections, etc), but as soon as my IMAP connection starts 
downloading messages, the USB mouse dies, sound quits, and the wireless 
connection can't seem to detect any access points anymore--just like before.

Now, however, I can suspend/resume, and USB and sound come back just 
fine--before, once they were hosed, it would eventually result in a 
locked machine. If I just unload/reload modules, they don't recover, but 
after a suspend, they do...

I've updated the Madwifi sources, but am currently having trouble 
compiling it. Will try the Madwifi list for that.

The other issue I'm seeing now is this:

Sep 29 09:45:36 hunter kernel: smapi: 32-bit protected mode SMAPI BIOS 
found. :-)
Sep 29 09:45:36 hunter kernel: smapi: SMAPI BIOS return codes differ!

Not sure if this is the Thinkpad module or the ibm_acpi module.

One other thing: I have it successfully suspending to RAM when I close 
the lid. Is it possible to have it resume when I open it, like it does 
in Windows? If so, how?

Thanks,
-- 
John Locke
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