Guest pinecone Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 First, I have an internal wireless(802.11b) card and i am unable to use it. At first it would stop my computer from booting, but i use interactive startup and did not startup the LAN and then disabled it. So, i was just wondering if there is a way i can configure it to work or can it never work. Second, I was wondering if there is a way i can hibernate(save ram to harddrive and power off) in Linux. This would be helpful because Linux takes a while to boot and i have to do it a lot when running on battery. hibernating allow me to power off without having to go throught the long booting process every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 First, I have an internal wireless(802.11b) card and i am unable to use it. At first it would stop my computer from booting, but i use interactive startup and did not startup the LAN and then disabled it. So, i was just wondering if there is a way i can configure it to work or can it never work. which wireless card did you get? did you wait for about 5+ minutes and see if it came back with any response-such as eth0 initialization failed? If it can't get an IP (assuming you are doing DHCP) it will hang at this point in the startup for a good while before giving up (failing) and continuing on through the startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 Try setting up your hibernate options in your system bios setup. That's the way I do it and have had no problems with Mandrake 9.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pinecone Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 Thanks Tyme, i was using DHCP, that was probebly the problem. that is ok i guess. i will try using it when i am at a network. pmpatrick, if i set up options in my bios for hibernate, then what do i do to hibernate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dahvaio Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 What LAPTOP do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pinecone Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 It is a gateway 450SX4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dahvaio Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 I have a VAIO R505DL and it uses ACPI. I had to patch a vanilla 2.4.20 Kernel with ACPI and SWSUSP to get my laptop to suspend. If your laptop uses APM I believe you can suspend normally(?) You should have function keys to suspend.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 I have a Sony VIAO Z505. In my bios setup, under the Power tab, I can set several options one of which is having the system hibernate on closing the lid. This works fine for me. I don't know if you have the same options in your setup, but if you do I would reccomend using the bios rather than ACPI which I found to be problematic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dahvaio Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 No, the R505's don't have that option... I don't suspend often too much but haven't had any problems with SWSUSP... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pinecone Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 i tried apm suspend and the pwer didnt even go all the way off, the light was blinking like it was just on standby. Then, when i turned it on it didnt work and i just had to reboot. I will look for info about ACPI and SWSUSP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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