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I have an Acerv5 laptop with a Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
Installed 14.1beta had things running well for a couple of days now - no problems with wireless, NFS, etc. - no complaints
Issue seemed to start when I closed the laptop lid with it unplugged and power settings set to suspend on battery
It was fine on battery before, but I don't remember ever closing the lid

If I hard reboot everything works for awhile (couple of minutes ??) then wicd disconnects; if I manually reconnect it lasts for a bit then disconnects (still without thunar working properly)
Thunar quits working properly (assuming because of the NFS share that gets loaded with fstab)
shutting down / restart goes to a black screen with a static cursor and eventually shuts down
On restart its the same story

re-installed wicd - no changes
removed and re-installed - no changes
now it connects - disconnects - connects - I think I see a pattern here

Any ideas - thanks

Solved - sort of

Not sure what happened - tried noacpi at startup and that seemed to help with wicd (stayed connected)

Then started using the lappie without noacpi and wicd was staying connected for the time being.

The screen is still blank at shutdown/restart but does shutdown

Not a priority - things are working again - I missed my nfs shares from the main desktop and Thunar going bonkers more than anything

Need to get going here - any suggestions appreciated and if I figure something out for sure I'll post back. I know just enough to be dangerous.

Salix 14.1 running fine on the main desktop - thanks for the hard work

AMD cpu or Nvidia video card?

nope -

Machine: System: Acer product: V5-131 version: V1.09
Mobo: Acer model: Mimic version: Type2 - Board Version Bios: Acer version: V1.09 date: 10/30/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Celeron CPU 1007U (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 1335.00 MHz 2: 1455.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller

It's been OK for several hours now - I shut off anything in "power settings" related to suspend or hibernate.
Been looking at some log files to see if I can get a handle on this - it's a learning curve for me - Linux in general has always worked for me with few problems.

The main desktop is running 14.1beta with no issues (AMD64 cpu and ATI radeon 3000 graphics).

Making suspend work properly for any specific setup might require some fine tuning. Probably the ath9k modules isn't loaded properly after it comes back and you need to tweak the procedure for it. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I have never used suspend myself (or hibernate for that matter).

Maybe there is some insight in this old thread?
http://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php? ... 05&p=19911

Thanks for the suggestion(s)
WiFi and shutdown/restart have been behaving as of late - wish I could be a little more certain about what took place.
I've set Power Manager in the Settings to do "nothing" in all the boxes I could.
I'm slowly learning to take the time to write things down as they happen. I've got 4 computers going and forget sometimes who did what to whom