Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:43226 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757128AbYAKUOY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:14:24 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so519384ugc.16 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:14:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4787CCAF.1030500@gmail.com> (sfid-20080111_201428_589269_A03B1F23) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:08:15 +0100 From: Ronald Reply-To: ronald645@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Buesch CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bcm4311 shuts down on closing lid (intended?) References: <47866FE6.4010100@gmail.com> <200801102028.43222.mb@bu3sch.de> <4787021F.4020803@gmail.com> <200801111628.26119.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: <200801111628.26119.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > On Friday 11 January 2008 06:43:59 Ronald wrote: >>>> On Thursday 10 January 2008 20:20:06 Ronald wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> The b43 driver in the linux kernel 2.6.24-rc7 works really good :) . >>>>> Keep it up! However, one thing is bugging me: Why does the card stop >>>>> sending/receiving packets when I close the lid? Is this behaviour >>>>> intended in the new driver? If yes, can I disable it? >>>> I guess the machine goes to suspend, right? >>>> You obviously can't use the machine when it's suspended. >>>> >> >Nope, it doesn't go into suspend. With the old driver, I could close >> >the lid and for example SSH into it. Now, that is not possible. I >> tried >it with a radio station. It stops playing after a while once I >> close >the lid.... . The only thing that changes is that the screen >> light >shuts down (but not the card! it worked before when closing the >> >screen!) > > I'm pretty sure there are no lid related routines in the wireless > driver, though. ;) So the problem must be somewhere else. > > Weird >.< I recompiled the kernel with the latest git patch (rc7-git3) and it seems fixed. I only removed nl80211 from the configuration. I will chech later if this makes the difference.... Ronald