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goodtimes200

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Registered: 2011-05-31

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] - wireless disconnects when I close laptop lid

Good day all,

The laptop for which I have Arch installed is a 15 inch thinkpad that almost always is plugged in.  Often I need to ssh to other machines. However, when I close the lid of my laptop, the wireless connection drops and I lose all of my connections. I would very much like to avoid this fate. The only think I know for sure is that the display locks and the wireless drops out when I close the lid.

Any help is appreciated

Last edited by goodtimes200 (2011-06-02 01:33:05)

riddle

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Registered: 2011-05-31

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] - wireless disconnects when I close laptop lid

Are you sure that laptop does not suspend?

einhard

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From: Poland

Registered: 2010-01-05

Posts: 89

Re: [SOLVED] - wireless disconnects when I close laptop lid

Which dm (kde, gnome, xfce, etc.) are you using? You can disable actions for "close lid" in power managers.

Are you using laptop-mode-tools? Check your config file, or just disable demon for confirmation.

You can also disable pm-utils quirks, but honestly i don't think it's related.

Are you sure that connection isn't cut off from lack of signal? I had similar situation with some distant wifi networks. It all depends on location of antennas in notebook.

goodtimes200

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Registered: 2011-05-31

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] - wireless disconnects when I close laptop lid

Yes, the answer was in power management. I just glanced over it about ten times.  Thanks folks.