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

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 04-08 14:14, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 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.

Flakey? You can say that again! This isn't even a laptop. :)

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