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Suspend mode with ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M or PGENET10)
Suspend mode with ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M or PGENET10)

New MessageSuspend mode with ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M or PGENET10) (modified 0 times) bbqpanther
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Has anyone succeeded making suspend/resume work while using a USB ethernet adapter?

I've got suspend/resume (both Power button and Start menu choice) working perfectly as long as the ethernet adapter is not plugged into the USB port. If it is plugged in, I get the message "Your computer cannot go on standby because a device driver or program won't allow it." This occurs with either the USB100M or the PGENET10. Hot-unplugging the USB adapter fixes the problem, hot-plugging it back in makes it happen again. I've tried booting both with and without the USB ethernet adapater with no difference in results. Other USB devices don't cause any problem.

I'm running off the DOC. I've tried starting with an image loaded from IEDOC.IMG and EMBED98.IMG with the same result. It appears that both images have already had the Linksys driver installed at some point, because network properties list the Linksys adapter on a webpad that's never seen the USB100M in my house. I suspect this might be part of the problem, but I don't have a DOCable image that's not an offshoot of one of these masters.

Running PMTShoot, I get a report that the driver returned a CR_FAILURE. I get basically the same diagnostic with either adapter (adapter specific info changes, of course, but the CR_FAILURE still happens).

I've tried the normal stuff (APM1.0, remove APM/Floppy/..., use wpmgxv053001 (Great Driver!!!)), etc. Nothing has any effect. I do see the Windows95 artifact of having Suspend in the Start menu instead of in the Shut Down dialog - I'm presuming this is normal.

If anyone has the suspend/resume feature working with any USB ethernet device installed, I'd be interested in how you accomplished this magic!

Thanks in advance for the help!

06-16-2002 22:40:30

New MessageRE:Suspend mode with ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M or PGENET10) (modified 0 times) endodoc
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Mine works fine. I didn't do anything special. I am running W98 off of a laptop harddrive with the DOC removed. I am using a $5 USB ethernet adapter that I got from TigerDirect (link below). Occasionally the adapter hangs up and the network resources aren't available until I unplug/replug, but the suspend mode is unaffected

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=c155-1100

06-18-2002 13:38:23

New MessageRE:Suspend mode with ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M or PGENET10) (modified 0 times) bbqpanther
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I suspect there may be a problem with the Linksys driver...

Does anybody have a Webplayer running the EMBED98.IMG or IEDOC.IMG images and a USB Ethernet adapter working in suspend mode???

There are two significant differences in our configurations:

1) You're running Win98 off of a hard disk - this means you started with a clean Win98 install.
2) You're using the 3Com adapter.

I'm using the Win98Lite images in both flavors. I'm also using Linksys or Xylinx USB network adapters.

I believe that both the EMBED98.IMG and IEDOC.IMG images had a Linksys 10/100 USB adapter installed during their past, based on the fact that these devices show up in the registry. I think the Linksys driver causes a problem for Windows APM as it is configured, but I haven't been able to confirm this.

I'll be doing a Win98 install in the next couple of days and I'll post the result. In the meantime, if anyone has already solved this mystery, I'd be really happy to hear from you!

06-18-2002 23:21:41

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