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Special Forums IP Networking Connecting to DHCP network with Realtek interface Post 302304183 by septima.pars on Sunday 5th of April 2009 01:11:42 PM
Old 04-05-2009
Hi,

I have had similiar issues with a wireless card being intermittent on a laptop (Note: The laptop is often restarted and certain scripts are run by default). On my end initially--and by the way, it's not 100% resolved--is that the default settings of the Operating System/Window Manager are to enable control of the networking settings through 2 different application utilities--which you can choose from, and are each not compatible with the way they manage the settings)


Switching between these applications would result in some of the settings being overwritten, most likely because each was reading certain configuration files (maybe some of the same) and overwriting them to suit the way they worked.

At this point, I am looking in the /udev functioning and maybe the driver modules that are loaded....
But anyway, it always seems to be hard to track down driver issues

I do have another card that works wirelessly, but I want to try and fix it. If I do, i'll be sure to post what I find.
 

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LAPTOP_MODE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    LAPTOP_MODE(8)

NAME
/usr/sbin/laptop_mode - apply laptop mode settings SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/laptop_mode [ cmd ] [ force ] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the /usr/sbin/laptop_mode command. laptop_mode is a program that applies the settings given in the /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf configuration file. The primary use is to control the laptop mode feature included in Linux kernels with versions 2.6.6 and higher, and 2.4.23 and higher. This feature increases battery life by letting your hard drive spin down. This is achieved by grouping disk write activity into "chunks" that are spaced at larger intervals than they normally would be. In addition to sup- porting the Linux kernel's laptop mode feature, /usr/sbin/laptop_mode also supports various power saving modules which are configured through configuration files in the /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d directory. It is not recommended to call /usr/sbin/laptop_mode directly to start or stop laptop mode, except in hardware event handlers. To apply new configuration settings from laptop-mode.conf, call the laptop-mode service init script with the reload parameter. COMMANDS
Specify force as the second parameter to force laptop_mode to re-apply a state even if the computer is already in that state. These are the values that are allowed for cmd : auto Enable or disable laptop mode based on the current power state. Note that this will not do anything if the laptop-mode service has not been started! status Display a status report about everything that laptop_mode affects. SEE ALSO
laptop-mode.conf(8). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk) for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. LAPTOP_MODE(8)
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