Wvdial does not disconnect when going into Standby mode

[Fischbach, Thomas (external)]

Hello everyone,

I am using the newest version 1.60 on Ubuntu 9.10 with a 3G stick.

When I am connected to the internet, the connection works fine but the problem is if I am going into standby mode the connection does not shut down.

I asked the developers of the Dashboard I am using but they told me that it is a problem of the wvdial package and they can't fix it.

Therefore I would like to know wether it is a known issue of the wvdial package of if there is a way to shut the connection anyway ?

Kind regards,

Thomas

[Avery Pennarun]

What "dashboard" are you using? I don't know what kind of dashboard
would have anything to do with wvdial.

Anyway, it's true that wvdial doesn't know anything about system
suspend. It's possible that your USB device (or driver) doesn't know
anything about it either. The most obvious options are:

1) Terminate wvdial before suspending your computer

2) Remove the USB stick when suspending your computer

3) Write an acpid script that kills wvdial when your system is about to suspend.

#3 is probably the most elegant, but also requires a bit of coding
skill. But you might even be able to get the Ubuntu guys to include
it in their wvdial package so others can use it. (Since acpid scripts
tend to be pretty system-specific, it probably wouldn't do us any good
to include the script with wvdial itself.)

Hhave fun,

Avery