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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell, networkmanager, wifi re-connect
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:17:11
Message-Id: 4EF098A0.40601@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell, networkmanager, wifi re-connect by "Albert W. Hopkins"
1 Am 20.12.2011 13:55, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins:
2 > On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 13:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
3 >> Maybe I have something wrong in my /etc/hibernate/common.conf ...
4 >> gotta look that up now.
5 >
6 > I suspect that's not it. If I were to guess I'd say it's probably
7 > "normal"; that it takes a while to associate with the AP, either
8 > because it's a less-than-stellar AP or you have a lot of RF
9 > activity/interference in your area.
10
11 Maybe the cheap Netgear-AP, yep. btw, the AP is still 802.11g only (54
12 MBit/s).
13
14 But it connects faster when I boot the machine than when I resume it!
15 At least it seems like, maybe I get that wrong ...
16
17 > Personally, if it's only 30 seconds I wouldn't worry about it. It
18 > takes me at least that long to remember why I needed to turn on the
19 > computer anyway :P
20
21 It's just a bit annoying. I remember this or that, or want to quickly
22 research something ... take the thinkpad and then -wait- ... but as I
23 mentioned, I just want to check how others experience this.
24
25 > For s&g, I made a screencast of me suspending and resuming my
26 > ThinkPad. The entire video is only 34 seconds (oddly, it doesn't
27 > recored while it's suspended :P) and as you can see I'm connected to
28 > the AP as soon as the screen unlocks.
29 >
30 > http://marduk.sdf.org/suspend.avi
31
32 black only here ... very suspended ;-) ... seems to take some time to
33 download.
34
35 > Also, you didn't mention your kernel. Could be an anomaly of your
36 > kernel/firmware.
37
38 Latest and greatest:
39
40 gentoo-sources-3.1.5 ~amd64 ... iwlagn-kernel-module ...
41 with firmware net-wireless/iwl6005-ucode-17.168.5.3
42
43 lspci says:
44
45 Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
46
47 Stefan

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