keep network connection always ON

[nomfacile]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how fedora 17 would keep connection on when screen is locked.
its very annoying when downloading something and be disconnected when sytem lock starts.

i'm using wireless connected to router.

Thx in advance

[ozjd]

Check your power settings. When it looks the screen it probably suspends after a set time. How you change that will depend on the DE you use.

[nomfacile]

Dear Ozjd,
1st thx.

I'm using F17 - gnome 3.4.2 - Kernel PAE 3.5.3 - Lenovo G570

Under power settings there's :
"Suspend when inactive for" set to -> "Don't suspend"
under brightness
"Dim screnn to save power" -> checked
"Turn screen Off when inactive for : " -> 10 minutes
"Lock" -> On
Lock screen after "Screen turns Off"

Hope you can help.

[LongTimeDabbler]

Disable acpi ? From Kernel command line or grub.conf?

[george_toolan]

Fedora does not disconnect your network connection.

Do you close the lid or something?

Is your computer suspened or hibernating when you come back? You can usually tell by some blinking light.

Do you have connection problems with your wireless when the screen is not locked?

Please check /var/log/messages for errors and

gsettings list-recursively | grep -i plugins.power

[nomfacile]

Dear george, thx,

When I leave my computer (sometimes I lock the screen others not) and I'm back i notice that the connection is down (I found this by seeing my torrent client at 0 kb/s)

I don't close the lid.

computer is not hibernating, I quickly enter the pass and I'm on, no delay time or HD activity.

No problem with my wireless, just to note that one day I lost my wireless card when upgrading kernel, following some forums I downloaded the linux drivers (Wireless-bluetooth-linux-STA-driver) from broadcom site and I 'make' the driver and install it again.
I often repeated this operation.
perhaps the problem is from here ????
I'll try to remove it and check again.

gsettings list-recursively | grep -i plugins.power
gave :
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 30
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 90
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power notify-perhaps-recall true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 2
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 3
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power priority 1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-ac 600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery 600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 0
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-action 120
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-critical 300
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-low 1200
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power use-time-for-policy true

Thx

[marriedto51]

Is it possible that making this a system connection will help?

To do that, run

nm-connection-editor

then choose the relevant wireless connection, and check the "System connection" box. (You should need to provide the root password.)

That way, the connection should be available for anyone from boot-time onwards.

[george_toolan]

Can you try a wired connection?

[nomfacile]

Dear marriedto,
I always use a mac filter without need of passord and I'm part of the wheel group.

Dear toolan,
I tried with a wired connection and same problem.

I think I have to find where I can set to not ave power on wireless when locked, when I was on windows ( before trying fedora ) I remember that we had a checkbox to not save power on some hardware.

Is there a GUI to set advancer power management properties ???? the one of gnome is poor.
I searched on google, but nothing at this moment.

[george_toolan]

You can tweak power settings with powertop, but Linux doesn't disconnect a network connection when it's in use.

Please check /var/log/messages for any errors.

How do you configure your ip address?

Is it possible that your DHCP lease expires or something like that?

Please check your DHCP server/router or configure a static ip address which shouldn't expire.