Hi Cameron,<br><br>I checked a couple of the laptops after seeing your email about the suspending, the wifi disappearing was after a suspend. I was thinking of suspend in the terms of a normal laptop where suspending effectively turns off the computer and saves state to the hard disk. I find it odd that the suspend is still allowed to occur even when running off AC power though.<br>
<br> -Alastair<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
G'day Alastair,<br>
<br>
Thanks for responding. I'd like to drill down further into the facts<br>
just to make sure we're not missing anything.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:19:19AM +1300, Alastair Munro wrote:<br>
> We did not disable suspend before testing, all these observations were<br>
> made on a fresh boot while plugged into AC power with no suspending.<br>
<br>
</div>You did not disable suspend, yet there was no suspending at all? That's<br>
surprising. The design since about build os49 is that dim screen with<br>
begin at about 15 seconds and suspend will begin at about 25 seconds of<br>
idle. The suspend doesn't turn off the screen, so you might not notice<br>
it. The power LED begins to blink at about a five second rate.<br>
<br>
Can you confirm that you keep the keyboard and touchpad active, and<br>
never idle for more than 30 seconds? It is very hard to do that,<br>
especially with other people interrupting.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The wireless just didn't seem to activate at all. When checking<br>
> 'ifconfig -a' the only device shown was the local loopback device<br>
> 'lo'.<br>
<br>
</div>This is quite consistent with not knowing that an automatic idle suspend<br>
has happened.<br>
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</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">James Cameron<br>
<a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/" target="_blank">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a><br>
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