Hi Cameron,
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
On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:54, Alastair Munro wrote:
Hi Cameron,
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
Hi Munro,
This isn't an ordinary laptop, and some of our deployment areas have very
expensive external DC power; from solar panels, cows, or a grid that
needs maintenance. When we make a million laptops suspend like that
even though they are on external power, we save megawatts.
An ordinary
We did not disable suspend before testing, all these observations were made
on a fresh boot while plugged into AC power with no suspending. The wireless
just didn't seem to activate at all. When checking 'ifconfig -a' the only
device shown was the local loopback device 'lo'.
-Alastair
On Sat,
G'day Alastair,
Thanks for responding. I'd like to drill down further into the facts
just to make sure we're not missing anything.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:19:19AM +1300, Alastair Munro wrote:
We did not disable suspend before testing, all these observations were
made on a fresh boot while
