A problematic switch from ACPI to APM

From: Madhusudan Singh (spammers-go-here_at_spam.invalid)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:20:40 -0400

Hi

        I run Debian Sarge on my laptop which has APM (1.2) and ACPI (2.0).
Almost everything on my laptop works (haven't tested the modem, but well) -
see http://www.geocities.com/msdebian/dslaptop.html.

        However, suspend/resume and hibernate do not work. And since my
laptop had APM capability, I decided to compile a kernel with at least
suspend/resume working. My kernel configuration is at
http://www.geocities.com/msdebian/config2-6-8-1.txt.

        My network configuration, described in the first link, has eth0 -
wired ethernet (e100 driver) and eth1 - wireless network (orinoco_cs
driver). However, when the kernel booted (passed apm=on acpi=off options),
DHCP (as usual) was attempted before PCMCIA was started (which is eth1).
eth1 appeared as Null, while hotplug tried to find an eth2 !

        Other symptoms :

        1. My battery (which was fully charged and the laptop was running on
battery) was showing 0% charge and charging (from the icon) in KDE.
        2. The PCMCIA wireless card had a steady light on (which is the case
when it has detected a network and an essid) but showed no info on the
essid in iwconfig (which returned an error that eth1 did not exist or some
such).

Thanks,

MS

PS :
        A /var/log/messages extract from an untidy boot is at :

        http://www.geocities.com/msdebian/apmlog.txt



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