It was APM! (Was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Some RedHat 7.2 questions)

[Matt Gushee]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:52:44PM -0600, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> Any idea why APM would try to shut down a NIC? I did no
> configuration on APM - anything configured would have been the default. I
> can see some folks wanting their NIC to go into some kind of standby on a
> laptop, but even then...

I'm not sure *why*, but if the NIC is PCMCIA, there are commonly weird/
bad/annoying interactions between APM and the PCMCIA controller. You 
may already know this, but one or more APM features are flaky on many
laptops; the Linux Laptop Home Page will probably point you to info for
your model. If you find there are known problems, you'll have to compile
a kernel with those features disabled.
-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/