Stephen Marley wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:59:00PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: ... >> >> Agreed. Some IBM systems of that vintage had "power saving" modes which >> went quite beyond the call of duty, turning way too much off way too >> "hard". Your description sounds very much like this. > > I have an old compaq that was doing the same. Yesterday, I disabled apm0 > using 'config -e' and none of the nics has gone to sleep since (but then > again, maybe I'm just doing something else different). Worth a try > perhaps? (See config(8) on how to modify your kernel's properties > without recompiling). >
Well, worth a try, but don't trust it, or even expect it to happen. My *impression* is that these machines have very early APM systems, with no particular regard to current standards. I wouldn't expect OpenBSD's (or anything else) to effectively disable that mode. Go to the source -- disable it in the BIOS. This has an added advanatage: when you upgrade after months of running well, you probably won't remember to make the changes when you upgrade (at least, *I* always do... :). (heh. Just remembered I have some Compaqs which do the same thing.) Nick.
