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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021030 Chimera/0.5+ Description of problem: Dell inspiron 7000 laptop, with 3com pcmcia network card: Network works fine untill the laptop goes to sleep. When it wakes, the network is gone. Going to the Network configuration and attempting to re-activate decive, gives an error: can not activate network device on eth0 log oof/log on again does nothing. after reboot it goes back to normal Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. laptop goes to sleep 2. network became de-activated 3. try to re-actiate Actual Results: can't get the ntwork card to re-activate Expected Results: the network should not stop working on sleep Additional info: Linux newbie here- when asked in mailinglist what to do- was sent to file a bug here. did a sarch and didn't find anything. Hoping that I am not making a fool out of myself... :-)
It would be interesting what the output of the commands lsmod ifconfig -a before and after a sleep/wakeup look like. I suspect it's an initscript and/or hotplug problem rather than a net-tools one. Thanks, Read ya, Phil
Created attachment 89759 [details] The result of the commands before sleep (good network)
Created attachment 89760 [details] the result after sleep- dead network
Hm, looks really like hotplug doesn't reactivate the interface after wakeup, e.g. that the kernel might not even get a hotplug event from the laptop resp it's network card. This can happen on some laptops, and unfortunately the only solution for now is to restart the network manually via service network restart from a root shell. Hope that helps, Read ya, Phil