On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:16:53 +0100 Ronny B <fvacuum at yahoo.com> wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:29:02AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
| > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:20:51AM +0100, Ronny B wrote:
| > This should be easy to fix. Check your BIOS for an option to power on on
| > detection of modem activity and turn it off - what's happening is that when
| > you turn your modem off after the PC this generates some noise on the
| > relevant line which the PC identifies as "modem activity" and turns on.
| I guess I have a slightly odd BIOS - I've switched off some of the APM,
| and thought serial line was one of those options. The strange thing is
| that the computer won't respond when I switch *on* the modem, and most
| of the time the computer doesn't power off if the modem is already off
I have to say, I'm having the same problem . . . but only since I moved to
kernel 2.4...
Why is it I think this is down to some fun between APM and OSPM?
Paul
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