[ltp] Network card always ON

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:25:44 -0500 (EST), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jerome Poggi wrote:
> 
> > last days I discover that whem my T42 and T41 is in sleep mode (acpi S3)
> > the network card is always power on. I see it because I plug an ethernet
> > cable and see the two leds blinking.
> > I use 2.6.11rc5 with software suspend 2.1.7.2 and radeonstuff patch.
> >
> > Did anybody see it also ?
> 
> No, sorry.  I wanted to do wired ethernet with my T40 but the cable would
> get in the way and damaged from being rolled over and stepped on (or be
> quite difficult to route), so I had to do 802.11.
> 
> It's probably active to support wake-on-LAN.  Maybe disabling WOL in the
> BIOS (though I doubt what the BIOS says is relevant), or rmmod-ing the
> appropriate module(s).  Maybe there's an option to the module to not support
> WOL?  modinfo should say.

you should be abel to toggle this with ethtool assuming the driver supports it.

Alex

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