ath solved my ipw problems

[Sam Leffler]

Dan Langille wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2006 at 12:43, George Hartzell wrote:
> 
>> Dan Langille writes:
>>  > Hey folks,
>>  > 
>>  > Just for those people having ipw problems like I was for so long..
>>  > 
>>  > My ath NIC arrived yesterday.  I bought the genuine IBM part # 
>>  > 73P4301 (11A/B/G WL LAN MINI PCI ADAPTOR II)
>>  > 
>>  > The price was CAD$113.80 including all taxes and shipping.
>>  > 
>>  > http://tinyurl.com/d9whw
>>  > 
>>  > Of help was http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T41 which had a 
>>  > link to the Hardware Maintenance Manual.
>>  > 
>>  > 
>>  > Installation was not bad, following 
>>
>> I've had trouble with the ath device in my IBM T42p resuming properly
>> after a suspend.  Oddly enough, it only seems to happen with I'm
>> running X, if I swith to another vty before I suspend, and switch back
>> after I resume, then it works.
> 
> I just tried 'acpiconf -s 3' twice.  First from vty8, and then 
> konsole within KDE.  Neither was for very long (seconds, not minutes) 
> but ath0 functioned after resume.
> 
> FWIW: '-s 4' powers off the system immediately without a shutdown.  '-
> s 5' does a shutdown.
> 
> When I suspend from within X, the screen does not turn off totally.  
> It dims significantly until it is almost black, but I can still see 
> the windows that were/are open.
> 
> The mouse cursor went away, but came sback after a HUP.
> 
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php has a section on 
> suspend/resume.  But I have not tried those settings yet.
> 
>> For now I just run an /etc/rc.d/netif restart ath0 when I resume.
>>
>> I've shown this to Sam Leffler and he also sees resume problems on a
>> similar system.  It's in his queue of things to fix.
>>
>> Does suspend/resume work for you?  I'm running w/ dhclient and
>> wpa_supplicant using simple WEP keys.
> 
> I'm running dhclient too. No WEP here,  but I'm using IPsec.
> 
> 
George demonstrated his problem and I can reproduce it.  I've just not 
had time to dig.

	Sam