Laptop suspend, resume, wireless etc

Posted Jun 4, 2008 9:08 UTC (Wed) by mbg (subscriber, #4940)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops by Los__D
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

I have a Thinkpad X31 (type 2672-CM3), but with the wireless upgraded to an Intel ipw2200.

I'm running Debian etch, and use ACPI suspend/resume daily. Regrettably, it's not as stable as
it could be. I have experienced the wireless-flaky-on-resume problem, fixable with an
rmmod/modprobe cycle. However, the main problem is that the system refuses to resume about 1
time in 10.

I recently updated to a Lenny kernel (linux-image-2.6.24-1-686_2.6.24-4_i386.deb) and things
are perhaps a little more stable -- I've had about 30 suspend/resume cycles before each
lockup.

Counting the positives, I've had none of the reported problems on the suspend side, and no
trouble with backlights, battery drain or graphics state (graphics chip on this machine is an
ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY).

thinkwiki.org have a number of detailed pages that go into the ins and outs for Thinkpads...