[ltp] ndiswrapper and swsusp [RESOLVED]

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:10:59 +0100


On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:53:55 -0700, Adam Olsen wrote:
> Adam Olsen wrote:
> >I've decided that swsusp2 doesn't work with ndiswrapper at all, but I've 
> >been getting some success with the swsusp that comes with the 2.6 
> >kernel.  However, I can't get my wireless to connect at all after resume 
> >with swsusp.  Everything looks ok, iwconfig produces sane results - it 
> >just won't connect.  Any ideas?
> 
> Ok - I got this to work by appending acpi=noirq in my lilo 
> configuration.  I found this on ndiswrapper's support page (it didn't 
> mention anything about swsusp, but did say that if you were having 
> trouble connecting that this might help).  However, they didn't mention 
> what this option does.
> 
> What are the drawbacks of passing acpi=noirq to your kernel?

It avoids to let ACPI do the IRQ routing stuff and use the PnP-BIOS for
this. Usefull if the ACPI is broken in some way.

Regards,
Tino