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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:57:00 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suspend/resume in -current: still no joy 
Message-ID:  <199710292357.QAA14798@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710292353.PAA03250@austin.polstra.com>
References:  <199710291919.MAA13105@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199710292353.PAA03250@austin.polstra.com>

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> OK. :-) Here's something else to think about.  Sometimes it looks as
> though the machine has started to suspend, but then gets yanked back
> to life.  Once I watched it almost-suspend for maybe 10 seconds before
> hearing the disk spin up again all by itself.  (I say "almost" suspend
> because I'm pretty sure the suspend light never came on.)

OK.

> What I'm getting at is this:  The manual for the ThinkPad 560 says
> that an incoming call on the modem can wake up the machine when it is
> in the suspended state.  I'm having problems only with the modem card,
> not with the ethernet card.

On most machines, this can be disabled in the BIOS.  (I think you can
get to it in Win95).  Can you try disabling it?

> Could it be that the card is emitting a
> spurious indication of an incoming call, due to some error in the way
> it's being shut down?

Sure, then the APM bios won't allow it to shut down, and we have all
sorts of weirdness going on.  Error handling from un-successful attempts
are currently pretty weak.


Nate



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