Grr!

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
11 Jun 2001 18:08:31 -0400


"Jeremy Paul Bowers" <bowersj2@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> I run Linux on a P133 laptop, and I really wanted the suspend-to-disk. I
> eventually set it up in the BIOS so that after 20 minutes of being suspended,
> it saves everything to the disk (to a DOS parition at the start of the drive)
> and shuts off. When next I turn on the computer, Linux comes back off the disk
> and life is mostly good. The only problem is that I have to reset the PCMCIA
> ports and re-start the network, which was easy; the ethernet babbles something
> about "eth0: Too much work at interrupt" otherwise.

Did you try just `ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up;'?  Works
for me when I suspend/wake my laptop.
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