Hello, I have the same but I just don't close the lid and let it working alone. I mean, if it hibernates or even if it suspends, of course wifi will be turned off. So your options are not hibernating/suspending the computer or not closing the lid. Hope this helps you.
Regards, Sylvia On 18 July 2017 at 14:59, William Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm running Fedora 26 on a slightly old HP laptop using KDE. One minor > irritation is that whenever I close the lid of the laptop, the network > turns off -- both wifi and wired. > > I do a lot of downloads. I like to start one, close the lid, and set > the machine aside while I do other tasks. But I can't, because the > network turns off. > > A quick search using Google indicates that this is a recurrent issue. > The solutions I've tried are; > > 1) Use the power management GUI in KDE system settings to set "Button > events handling -> When laptop lid closed -> Do nothing" > > This stopped the machine from going into hibernation, but the network > still turned off. > > 2) Edited /etc/systemd/logind-conf to set > > HandleLidSwitch=ignore > > and, when that didnt' work after reboot, I added: > > 3) LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no > > even though I'm not sure what that does. That didn't work either. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > This was an issue with Fedora 25, too, but not Fedora 24. I never got > around to dealing with it in 25 because of time issues. > > Thanks! > > billo > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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