power management

William Cohen wcohen at redhat.com
Thu Mar 29 09:55:27 EDT 2007


Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:49 -0500, Gopi Palaniappan wrote:
>> Hi:
[...]
>> 2. What kind of sleep modes does it support?
> 
> Suspend to RAM.
> 
> But we can leave the display image intact on the screen, and the
> wireless interface forwarding packets.  So the system can appear to be
> operating even with the processor suspended.

If a developer takes one of the machines on an airplane in the "sleep" the 
wireless is still working? In the US airlines require that all intentional 
transmitters and receivers turned off when flying. Is there some control to turn 
on/off the wireless on the machine?



-Will



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