> the kernel does not have APM complied into it. given the suggestion, > i went ahead and purged the apm utilities using dselect. > > also, as i indicated before, i have disabled power managment with the > bios. > > and, i still get the same message. if the cover is closed, the laptop > does not accept any connections from the pcmcia nic card, and issues > an interrupt(s) dropped when something is directed to it. could there > be something about the pcmcia cards themselves? (they are both belkin > f5d5020) or how they talk with the cpu? > > i really don't know all that much about this stuff, but it seems to me > that(before the kernel update), when i closed the lid, and the lcd > display went off, that the linux os didn't react, but now, with > 2.4.20, it does something that prevents the pcmcia cards from talking > to the cpu. but, since APM is in the kernel, linux shouldn't care at > all if the lid is open or if the lid is closed and the lcd screen is > off, right?
I had the same problems with my asus l3c. the processor would just stop working while the lid was closed (so music stops playing, network connections timeout, ...). installing a vanilla kernel with acpi-patch and acpi enabled solved this for me, so it might help you too. -- Joris
