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Maki

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Registered: 2007-10-16

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Closing the screen disconnects wifi

I have an packard bell dot s netbook, in linux everything works, but whenever i close the screen wifi disconnects, it doesn't suspend but only disconnects, tried lubuntu, linux mint, archbang etc, nothing works. Found some ubuntu forum threads from 2008 that aren't solved. Anyone encountered this issue?

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Blµb

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Re: Closing the screen disconnects wifi

Might be a hardware switch then, definitely doesn't sound like it's done on purpose by any software / linux distro.
You could see if there's anything in /sys (maybe in the wifi driver's /sys/modules/) that could have any effect on that... thought I can't imagine why anyone would make this a default.

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Maki

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Re: Closing the screen disconnects wifi

In windows xp it works, i guess it is just badly designed hardware, here is what dmesg shows http://pastebin.com/DBz9begr

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Blµb

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Re: Closing the screen disconnects wifi

There seems to be a thread in this forum as well, maybe this one could help? (It's marked as solved, was a power-management issue)
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 86#p942186

And in this ubuntu thread it sounded like a screensaver issue, which personally I find a little suspiscious
[ubuntu forum] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8562475

Do hibernate and suspend work properly? Maybe it does try to suspend or hibernate but fails to do it completely?
Could also have to do with laptop-mode-tools.

I don't experience this problem myself, sorry I can't be of more help

Last edited by Blµb (2012-02-29 13:13:30)

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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

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Re: Closing the screen disconnects wifi

I saw that forum threads, i tried couple of distros with different setups with no difference, thanks for your help , i guess i should report it on the kernel mailing list

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