On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:49:59AM -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.)
I would have disabled it in the bios, but as you know with Compaqs, that is not all that easy when you've wiped out Compaq's utility partition from the hard-drive. I am too lazy to download the floppy bios drivers at the moment. :-) I agree about forgeting changes like this a few months down the line, but this is just an old piece of junk that I'm using to test various ospf and carp configurations, and it will probably just lie in a corner again once I'm finished. Cheers. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
