Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 79255
apmd should restart the network service
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:02:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 Description of problem: This bug is similar to Bug #63311, except it does not concern wireless cards. I also have a Dell CPx laptop but am using a Xircom ethernet card. The problem is that after suspending the network is lost - it doesn't help to manually restart services like network, pcmcia or kudzu - the interface eth0 simply won't be restored. I have used the following workaround for this problem: I edited /etc/sysconfig/apmd and changed the line RESTORESERVICES="named" to RESTORESERVICES="named network" This fixed the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.2-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. check that network is working before suspend (i.e. eth0 is active) 2. suspend laptop 3. resume Actual Results: interface eth0 is down. trying to bring the interface up manually (e.g. 'service network restart') or through RedHat's network tool won't do it. Expected Results: interface eth0 should be active again Additional info:
Actually the solution I gave above still gives some intermittent problems. Changing instead PCMCIARESTART to "yes", however, seems to work perfectly well. Shouldn't this be the default value for that variable?
Probably not; it's not really a problem for most laptops.