Hello,
Let me begin by thanking Ana Guerrero and the rest of Debian's KDE team
for their prompt response to the problems caused when a very stubborn
Debian kernel maintainer disabled support for /proc/acpi.[1]
Thank you for taking the time to provide people like me with a great
desktop!
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When I recently upgraded my Lenny system and brought in KPowersave, I
had no trouble suspending or resuming. However, KNetworkManager was
unable to reinitialize my wireless connection (Atheros with proprietary
Madwifi drivers). Specifically, KNetworkManager would show me that it
had detected 5 or 6 networks, but it was unable to connect to any of
them. So I ran "iwlist scan" and here's what I got:
[ Wed 23-Jul-2008 23.42 root ] eric # iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wifi0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
ath1 No scan results
[ Wed 23-Jul-2008 23.42 root ] eric #
[ Wed 23-Jul-2008 23.42 root ] eric #
This bug has been reported [2] and rumor has it that this is a
well-known issue [3]. (I cannot say that I knew about it however!).
I can unequivocally state that KPowersave caused the problem. I
downgraded to kernel 2.6.24 and reverted to KLaptop 3.5.9-1 and the
problem vanished.
Is their a workaround for this problem? or do we have to suffer in silence?
Thanks,
- Eric
