On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 15:16 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > But it connects faster when I boot the machine than when I resume it! > At least it seems like, maybe I get that wrong ... >
At it's core NM is just a daemon. The gnome/kde stuff are just front-ends that talk to the daemon via dbus when need-be. So likely it "appears" faster when you boot because the NetworkManager service is already started and connecting to your AP before you even see X come up. When you resume, all that other machinery is already up, so you are waiting on the card and the AP to associate. > > Personally, if it's only 30 seconds I wouldn't worry about it. It > > takes me at least that long to remember why I needed to turn on the > > computer anyway :P > > It's just a bit as nnoying. I remember this or that, or want to quickly > research something ... take the thinkpad and then -wait- ... but as I > mentioned, I just want to check how others experience this. > I personally haven't experienced the problem, but even if I did, I wouldn't think that gnome/nm/suspend would be the fault. Question: have you tried associateting with the AP manually? How long does that take? Have you tried associating with other APs? > > For s&g, I made a screencast of me suspending and resuming my > > ThinkPad. The entire video is only 34 seconds (oddly, it doesn't > > recored while it's suspended :P) and as you can see I'm connected to > > the AP as soon as the screen unlocks. > > > > http://marduk.sdf.org/suspend.avi > > black only here ... very suspended ;-) ... seems to take some time to > download. Should not take too long unless you have a very slow connection... it's a 306K file (took me less than 1 second to wget). It's uses the H.264 video codec so I'm guessing you don't have that. > > Also, you didn't mention your kernel. Could be an anomaly of your > > kernel/firmware. > > Latest and greatest: > > gentoo-sources-3.1.5 ~amd64 ... iwlagn-kernel-module ... > with firmware net-wireless/iwl6005-ucode-17.168.5.3 > > lspci says: > > Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34) Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 here. I guess mine's not "Advanced" but it's fast :D. I'm on the 3.2 rc's but don't recall any issues in the 3.1 days... I'm using a different firmware though.. the iwlwifi.. but maybe it's because my card is different. -a
