No wireless connections after sleep/suspend

[SkyJP]

Recently, I've setup a dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and everything seems to be going fine.

The networking works perfectly, until I access sleep mode/suspend. After that, when I logon, the wireless connection is lost. I attempted to connect via 'connecting to a hidden wireless network' and entered the password, but it takes a long time to connect and eventually prompts me for the password again without acquiring connection.

After I reboot, however, WiFi works again.

Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 130

If you tell me how to fix it with commands, if you don't mind, please tell me what the commands do as I'm new to Ubuntu =\

[chili555]

This technique sometimes, but not always works. We are going to add a file that tells the system that we have a module (a.k.a. driver) that we want to explicitly unload on suspend and reload on resume. The driver we'll unload and reload is your wireless driver iwlwifi. Let's use the text editor gedit to write a file. Since it's a location owned by root, we'll need to temporarily gain administrative privileges with sudo:

sudo gedit /etc/pm/config.d/config

Add one line:

SUSPEND_MODULES="iwlwifi"

Proofread carefully, save and close gedit. Reboot.

How does it work now?

[SkyJP]

Thank you, so far it has worked perfectly

[chili555]

Please use thread tools at the top to mark Solved so the searchers can find it.

Note to searchers: your wireless driver may not be iwlwifi. Please check and ask if in doubt.

[ping-wu]

This technique sometimes, but not always works. We are going to add a file that tells the system that we have a module (a.k.a. driver) that we want to explicitly unload on suspend and reload on resume. The driver we'll unload and reload is your wireless driver iwlwifi. Let's use the text editor gedit to write a file. Since it's a location owned by root, we'll need to temporarily gain administrative privileges with sudo:

sudo gedit /etc/pm/config.d/config

Add one line:

SUSPEND_MODULES="iwlwifi"

Proofread carefully, save and close gedit. Reboot.

How does it work now?

Followed your procedure. Now my 12.04 won't suspend?

[chili555]

Followed your procedure. Now my 12.04 won't suspend?

I've never heard that complaint before. Please check that your driver is actually correct if not iwlwifi and also that no typing errors were made.

[watgrad]

Thanks for this - I was having the same problem on my macbookpro8,1
This solved it.
My driver was "b43" for any other mac users looking for a solution to the suspend problem.
(Linux mint 13 - ubuntu 12.04 derivative)

[chrismatinez81]

i have BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY installed as my driver what do i put SUSPEND_MODULES="" "" i tried SUSPEND_MODULES=BCM4312 and BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY but they both dont work can you help me please

[chili555]

i have BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY installed as my driver what do i put SUSPEND_MODULES="" "" i tried SUSPEND_MODULES=BCM4312 and BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY but they both dont work can you help me please

I am sure that those are not the name of your driver. Please run:

sudo lshw -C network

This will take a few moments; please be patient. Look for your wireless device and see what is says at driver=. Then amend the file to include the exact name of the driver in quotes. It might be this, but check and confirm:

SUSPEND_MODULES="b43"

As a very famous man once said, "Trust but verify."

[chrismatinez81]

I am sure that those are not the name of your driver. Please run:

sudo lshw -C network

This will take a few moments; please be patient. Look for your wireless device and see what is says at driver=. Then amend the file to include the exact name of the driver in quotes. It might be this, but check and confirm:

SUSPEND_MODULES="b43"

As a very famous man once said, "Trust but verify."

thats my driver but its still not working. i have another question im on mint 13 cinnamon when i change my power setting for my screen i set it to never turn off but it still does. i have looked online but cant find anything please let me know if you know how to fix this problem
thanks