Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Wireless driver cause Powerbook G3 to wake from sleep without backlight

[Jonathan L. @ T. F. <jon...@th...>]

on 8/23/02 9:13 AM, David Lancaster at da...@ho... wrote:

> After installing the wireless driver, which worked great with my Dlink
> DWL-650, my Wallstreet G3 (10.1.5) now wakes up with the backlight off. I=
f I
> look closely, I can dimly see graphics on the screen, but only items that
> would normally be white.
> I have to force poweroff and reboot to use it now.
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> Tried the following without success:
> Put Pbook to sleep, remove WLAN card, woke pbook.
> Reset PMU, put Pbook to sleep, woke pbook.
> Booted without WLAN card, put Pbook to sleep, woke pbook.
> Uninstalled Wireless driver, put Pbook to sleep, woke pbook.
> Reinstalled OS X 10.1.5 update, put Pbook to sleep, woke pbook.
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> Everything was working fine before I installed the driver, it is the only
> variable that changed.
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> It seems like this was a problem on Wallstreets with earlier verions of O=
S
> X, I'm wondering if a component of the wireless driver has caused this bu=
g
> to start occuring on my Wallstreet.  Any files that get replaced? Or syst=
em
> configuration options chanaged?
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> Any chance of this being looked into?  My powerbook is pretty much useles=
s
> if I have to reboot it every time it goes to sleep.
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> Thanks,
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> D.

For what it's worth, I'm also running the Wireless Driver on a Wallstreet
PowerBook G3 with OS 10.1.5, and haven't experienced any of these problems.

  Jonathan Lyons
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