From: Benjamin Koh (benkoh_at_leland.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Fri Apr 30 1999 - 12:49:56 EDT
I have the same network card in my 560X, and for the one week I ran
win98 suspend/resume seemed to work properly, if slowly. One reason
suspend appears not to happen is that Windows takes its own sweet time
to shut down devices, so it looks like it's crashed. I run win95 now,
and suspend time takes anywhere from 5 seconds to 2 minutes. It gets
really annoying sometimes because I have to wait to see whether it's
crashed or going into suspend mode proper. Sometimes there's a DLL
called "mssvc32" or something like that that performs "illegal
operation" and gets shut down. Then nothing happens. If I try to suspend
again it sometimes works. Weird. Resume is also occasionally erratic. If
I close the lid while it's trying to suspend, sometimes it won't wake
up, or reboots while trying to bring up the password screen. Other times
the screen remains blank, and I have to close and re-open the lid before
the password prompt appears. And sometimes I get the password prompt
twice. Now I just wait until the suspend light comes on before closing
the lid ie I suspend using the Start Menu - if I use Fn-F4 it wakes up
when I close the lid (you can hear the HD spin up). Oh and it sometimes
wakes up anyway even if I use the Start Menu.
I think most of these problems stem from Windows (95/98) power
management, not the network card - the "mssvc32" DLL obviously does
something with power management. One thing I know the network card does
do is slow down suspend/resume; you can see that it can take a while for
the status lights on the dongle to go off and come back on during
suspend/resume. All the stuff documented above is with the network card
installed; I never remove it unless I go for extended trips away from
campus.
I've basically learnt to live with it, accepting it as another MS
"undocumented feature" =( It's a real pity the Thinkpads are such fine
pieces of hardware running such poor software. But installing Linux is
such a pain...
Benjamin
William Armstrong wrote:
>
> To the ThinkPad list,
>
> I just seem to have nothing but problems trying to get my TP770Z to suspend
> and resume reliably under Win'98. I believe the problem can be narrowed
> down to the network PC card. I'm currently using a 3Com Megahertz 10/100
> LAN CardBus card (3CXFE75BT). I also have used in the past a XIRCOM Modem +
> 10/100 combo card with an older 770 that I have, but I have not used this
> card nor installed the drivers for it in my newer 770Z. I had similar
> problems with the XIRCOM card in the other laptop.
>
> I remove the card prior to going into suspend, resume seems to happen
> correctly. If I leave the card in any number things can happen. Sometimes
> the laptop will not suspend at all. Sometimes the laptop will suspend only
> by hitting the Fn and F4 keys, but not by closing the lid. If the laptop
> does suspend only occasionally will it resume correctly. Other times it
> will try to resume but fail and go to the first screen of a reboot, but go
> no further. Still other times it will resume OK, but I get an error message
> regarding something called STIMON.EXE (or something like that).
>
> Anyone have any ideas or advice?
>
> -Bill Armstrong
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