Re: APM / PCMCIA conflict.

[Jaume Guasch <jaume.guasch@psi.ch>]

Hi,

Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> writes:

> I have an orinoco gold pcmcia wireless LAN card.
> works fine.
> 
> But I can't suspend the notebook, or hibernate.
> If I pull the card, the apm related operations are just fine.
> 
> apm -s works with the card in place.
> apm -S doesn't work in either case.
> 
> but the keyboard buttons for standby/hibernate don't work if the card is
> in place.
> 
> Any suggestions on where to begin?
> 

Read the file /etc/apm/event.d/pcmcia (from the pcmcia-cs package):

# This script was provided for those systems with broken APM and those
# systems with problem cards that cannot handle a suspend/resume cycle.

read the rest of the file, and apply the suggestions.

Best regards,

Jaume

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