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Grant Sewell wrote: > I have a new toy that came with Vista pre-installed. I do not know if > this is an HP specific "feature" or not, but today I discovered > something quite "interesting" about Microsoft Windows Vista... > > I went to shut it down properly, not the default hibernate (suspend to > disk) but a proper shutdown. I thought it was shutting down nicely, so > I closed the lid. The default (and current) setting is that closing the > lid will put it into standby (suspend to RAM). Several hours later I > open up the laptop to find it resumes from RAM and then continues > shutting down as I had wanted. > > Now *that's* a bit stupid. > > Now that rant's off my chest... anyone got any positive stories about > AR5007 chipset wireless cards under Linux? That's what's in this baby. > I've got it to the point where it will now see the wireless networks > about, just not connect to them! Arghgh! Current distro of choice > being Ubuntu 8.0.4, but others are welcome. :) > > --Grant. > LOL, my Dell does that on Windows XP. Can be most annoying. Usually happens when I tell the machine to hibernate and it doesn't do anything. I then tell it to shut down and close the lid, and hey presto when it reboots it resumes into a shutdown. Sorry can't help on the wireless problem though. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html