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Odd sleep behaviour on MacPro

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:21:50 EST

I have X windows running on the Mac. Windows come from other systems,
displayed on the mac (as well as some local xterms).

Usually, when the Mac goes to sleep, the displays go off, but the
ethernet remains on and enough of the Mac remains awake to maintain the
remote x window connections.

But every now and then (I think it is after a reboot), going to sleep
results in the ethernet going off which causes all the remote X windows
to timeout and be lost.

Energy saver is currently set to:

Computer sleeps: 1 hour
Display Sleep: 12 minutes

Put the hard disk to sleep: yes
Wake for Ethernet network access: no
Allow power button to put computer to sleep: yes
Start up automatically adter a power failure: YES

Note the later: after a power failure where the mac was asleep, it does
not power back on automatically.

I haven't changed those settings in ages.

I suspect some application, possibly Transmission (for torrents), does
something to the mac to prevent it from ever going to sleep completely
and this survives after Transmission has quit but is not reflected in
the System sesstings.

is this possible ?

Is my only option to set the "Computer Sleep" to "Never" ? is there a
"half asleep" setting where background stuff continues, but GUI stuff is
suspended ?

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In article <4cba3169$0$31536$c3e8da3$c14f6927@news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> I suspect some application, possibly Transmission (for torrents), does
> something to the mac to prevent it from ever going to sleep completely
> and this survives after Transmission has quit but is not reflected in
> the System sesstings.
>
> is this possible ?

I'm not sure if it can survive past Transmission being quit, but there
*is* an option to turn off Transmission interfering with your settings
entirely in its Preferences (Network tab).

Steve

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Steven Fisher wrote:

> I'm not sure if it can survive past Transmission being quit, but there
> *is* an option to turn off Transmission interfering with your settings
> entirely in its Preferences (Network tab).

"Prevent computer from sleeping with active transfers"

The wording would tend to indicate that even with transmission running,
it would still go to sleep if there were no active transfers. Perhaps
the setting is so strong that it survives not only the lack of active
transfers, but the quitting of the application :-)

Watching MBP battery life drain away - literally!

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:30:34 EST

I've finally retrieved my MBP from its wintering ground (under
Rowland's sofa!) and I've had it charging since I got back. I've fully
updated it (it's running Tigger) and I've been using it for roughly 45
minutes and, in that time, I've watched the meter go from 98 (I don't
recall it ever reading 100% in the entire time I've had it) to 36%.
One of the updates was a firmware update and I don't recall the
battery draining this quickly (but I've not seen it since the end of
August) prior to said 'EFI' update.

It's connected via the AirPort to a Linksys router and I'm currently
listening to TMS as I type this (via the Beeb TMS page) (just trying
to think of things that might be affecting it).

In the course of typing this post, it's now gone down to 33%.

It's a 2nd gen machine, if that makes any difference.

If you need any more info, then I'd be more than happy to provide.

Cheers

Sarah

Power-Line Ethernet: How Secure? Interference?

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:58:45 EST

How secure is power-line-based Ethernet? Does it hose up radios and
such? I'd think that it would "radiate like a banshee" as one of my
former coworkers used to say.

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Battery Problem, MacBookPro

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:49:17 YAKST

Jean Guillaume Pyraksos <wissme@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Behavior is the following.
> I work with the battery connected, at 99%.
> When I disconnect and work outside, very soon the
> computer shuts down as if the battery was low, even
> if it is at 70%. I need to reconnect the battery,
> which charges up to 99%.
> It is an Apple refurbished machine.
> Any hint ?

Did you follow Apple's instructions when you first got the MacBook to
calibrate the battery? If not, try that now.

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airport network no longer defaults properly after wake-up

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:00:23 EST

Not sure how I did this, but as of yesterday, when my MBP wakes from
sleep it no longer defaults the wireless network. I have to select
one manually from the AirPort menu icon. Before this, my local AirPort
network would be selected automatically on wake-up.

The AirPort configuration in the Network system preference still says
'By default, join <A specific network>', my preferred network is still
listed as the one to join, and my login keychain still has the right WPA
password. Afaik I didn't make any network configuration or keychain
changes of any kind.

How can I get the old behavior back?

"Wake for Ethernet Network Administrator Access"? (how to use)

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:54:11 EST

"Wake for Ethernet Network Administrator Access"

Set by a box in the Energy Control preferences.
(options tab)

Anyone know how to get this to work?

I tried it with an Ethernet Timbuktu network, but no success.

Two Macs connected via Ethernet cable, everything works okay as long as
both Macs stayed awake.

Put one Mac to sleep, then can't rouse it from sleep from the other Mac,
no matter what I do.

It is necessary to send a "Wake on LAN" packet somehow, but can't find
out how to do that, despite searching Google.

Mark-

"shutdown" does "restart"

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:49:25 YAKST

400MHz G4 PowerMac (Gigabit Ethernet version). OSX 10.3.9. Been running
10.3.9 since shortly after it was released.

For perhaps a week now, I have been having the same problem. It happens
when I chose "Shutdown" from the menu while logged in and when I just
click on the "Shutdown" icon on the login screen. The computer does the
usual shutdown routine; it goes quiet for a few seconds; and it starts
booting up again.

This may have happened occasionally in the past. Then again, I may have
mouse-clicked on "Restart" rather than "Shutdown" on those occasions. It
is completely consistent now.

I can actually shut the computer down my holding down the power button
on the tower during the last of the quiet seconds and the start of the
boot-up.

I cannot tell if this is a hardware or software problem. Doing a "Repair
Permissions" with Disk Utility did not help. Running a full diagnostic
with TechTool did not help either.

How do I fix this problem?

John R Delaney
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Mac Mini PPC will not sleep

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:31:59 YAKST

Hi.
1stly, I am a switcher. I love my MAC, it is so refreshing coming home
and using my MAC after a day in my Windows centric job as a Sys
Engineer.

But I have a problem with my MAC now not sleeping by its self. I can
put it to sleep manually though. It used to and I can not think of any
thing I did to stop it.

I have tried deleting the power prefs plist. Resetting the NVRam at
startup Option+Command+P+R ( I think, but it did reset.)

I have no attached printers. Or anything USB except my Apple KB and MS
mouse.

It does not sleep for another limited account I have setup either.

How do I track this down?
Thanks Scotty

Here is a list of the processes/
246 Activity Monitor 5.60 scott 2 11.11 MB 154.48 MB
255 AppleSpell 0.00 scott 1 1.88 MB 37.34 MB
62 ATSServer 0.00 scott 2 2.35 MB 57.62 MB
176 automount 0.00 root 3 1.05 MB 28.73 MB
162 automount 0.00 root 3 1.09 MB 29.02 MB
56 blued 0.00 root 1 1.82 MB 36.93 MB
35 configd 0.00 root 3 1.80 MB 29.23 MB
36 coreaudiod 0.00 root 1 1.98 MB 31.03 MB
60 coreservicesd 0.00 root 3 7.09 MB 36.32 MB
99 crashreporterd 0.00 root 1 200.00 KB 26.61 MB
150 cupsd 0.00 root 2 1.54 MB 27.84 MB
43 DirectoryService 0.00 root 3 2.04 MB 29.52 MB
37 diskarbitrationd 0.00 root 1 1.02 MB 27.13 MB
44 distnoted 0.00 root 1 836.00 KB 27.02 MB
77 Dock 0.00 scott 2 5.43 MB 149.55 MB
21 dynamic_pager 0.00 root 1 168.00 KB 26.63 MB
152 Finder 0.00 scott 5 17.13 MB 172.02 MB
190 iCalAlarmScheduler 0.00 scott 1 2.83 MB 135.19 MB
188 iTunes Helper 0.00 scott 1 1.65 MB 130.07 MB
0 kernel_task 1.10 root 40 76.48 MB 879.91 MB
30 KernelEventAgent 0.00 root 2 604.00 KB 27.19 MB
25 kextd 0.00 root 2 944.00 KB 27.55 MB
192 Kodak EasyShare Wireless Listener 0.00 scott 1 3.52 MB 138.56 MB
1 launchd 0.00 root 3 512.00 KB 27.68 MB
63 loginwindow 0.00 scott 4 5.87 MB 151.04 MB
79 lookupd 0.00 root 2 1.33 MB 28.51 MB
180 lpd 0.00 root 1 516.00 KB 26.63 MB
236 mdimport 1.20 scott 4 4.08 MB 42.07 MB
31 mDNSResponder 0.00 root 4 1.07 MB 28.41 MB
136 mds 0.70 root 8 3.97 MB 42.70 MB
38 memberd 0.00 root 3 620.00 KB 27.66 MB
187 MicrosoftMouseHelper 0.10 scott 1 1.84 MB 131.59 MB
32 netinfod 0.00 root 1 600.00 KB 26.95 MB
120 nfsiod 0.00 root 5 188.00 KB 28.62 MB
41 notifyd 0.00 root 2 468.00 KB 27.21 MB
157 ntpd 0.00 root 1 376.00 KB 26.86 MB
72 pbs 0.00 scott 2 1.85 MB 53.91 MB
247 pmTool 0.90 root 1 1.04 MB 36.47 MB
158 rpc.lockd 0.00 root 1 196.00 KB 26.67 MB
221 Safari 13.40 scott 10 75.70 MB 268.91 MB
39 securityd 0.00 root 1 1.65 MB 28.49 MB
33 syslogd 0.00 root 1 416.00 KB 26.64 MB
151 SystemUIServer 0.20 scott 3 7.26 MB 152.82 MB
48 update 0.00 root 1 224.00 KB 26.61 MB
58 WindowServer 2.80 windowserver 2 33.52 MB 162.72 MB

waking up a powerbook with ether-wake

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:13:35 YAKST

I am trying to use a Linux system to send a wake-on-lan packet to a
powerbook that's running MacOS 10.3.x. The command I am using is

ether-wake -D -i eth0 00:30:65:F9:C1:62

So far, it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?

-akop

Mac won't stay asleep

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:57:44 YAKST

My computer won't stay asleep when I put to sleep.
It will sleep for about 10 seconds and then wakes up. The screen will
continue to sleep but the hard disk stays awake. I've got the Energy
Saving set to 15 minutes in the System preferences.
I"ve turned off all automatic updates.

I'm using a G4 tower with 20 inch Apple display and I'm on a cable
modem and I use Airport Extreme.
I'm using that latest OS and the programs that I use everyday are MS
Word, Mail, I tunes, ICal, Address book, Safari or Firefox.
I've got a USB hub that I plug an Ipod into and a digital camera and
have tried disconnecting that with no luck.

I can't seem to figure this one out.
Anyone experience something similar?

Thanks for any suggetions.
Ed

NFS mounts after sleep problem.

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:58:37 YAKST

I have been experiencing an intermittent problem with an NFS mount that
doesn't always work after waking a sleeping G4. Most of the time the
mount works after a sleep but sometimes the system log shows the
following and never manages to remount. A reboot fixes the problem:

> Jul 10 08:38:00 g4/g4 configd[37]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
> Jul 10 08:38:00 g4/g4 lookupd[358]: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Mon Jul 10 08:38:00 2006
> Jul 10 08:38:00 g4/g4 configd[37]: hostname (reverse DNS query) = g4.imagilan
> Jul 10 08:38:00 g4/g4 configd[37]: setting hostname to "g4.imagilan"
> Jul 10 08:38:00 g4/g4 configd[37]: setting hostname to "g4.imagilan"
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: short receive (1456/10284) from nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: short receive (1456/10284) from nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: short receive (1456/10284) from nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: can not connect, error 13
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: can not connect, error 13
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: can not connect, error 13
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 automount[156]: handle_deferred_requests: processing pending VFS Event...
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 KernelEventAgent[32]: tid 00000000 received VQ_NOTRESP event (1)
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 KernelEventAgent[32]: tid 00000000 received VQ_NOTRESP event (1)
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 KernelEventAgent[32]: tid 00000000 type 'nfs', mounted on '/private/var/automount/home', from '10.7.11.1:/home', not responding
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 KernelEventAgent[32]: tid 00000000 type 'nfs', mounted on '/private/var/automount/home', from '10.7.11.1:/home', not responding
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 KernelEventAgent[32]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 KernelEventAgent[32]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: can not connect, error 13
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: can not connect, error 13
> Jul 10 08:38:01 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: can not connect, error 13
> Jul 10 08:38:02 g4/g4 kernel[0]: nfs server 10.7.11.1:/home: not responding

mount shows:

10.7.11.1:/home on /private/var/automount/home

and the mount is mounted with the following options:

-P (allow all ports, not just privileged)
-3 (NFS v3)
-r=32768
-w=32768 (read and write size)
-T (NFS over TCP)

Unfortunately the Linux server that holds the mount shows no errors and
I would be surprised if there were a problem at that end since rebooting
the Mac fixes the problem.

I am also curious as to whether the mac supports non-automounted/static
mounts? Automount seems more effort than it is worth especially for
mounts that should never expire.

Any clues greatfully received.

S.

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iMac won't stay asleep

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:48:16 YAKST

I've had this problem under both 10.3.8 and 10.3.9, possibly earlier
releases too. Flat-panel iMac.

If I put it to sleep, it stays asleep. But very very often, if it goes
to sleep via Energy Saver preferences, it wakes up immediately. I don't
think it's a port thing -- I've had it sleep properly with everything
connected, and not sleep properly with everything detached.

Examples from System Log:

Jun 28 18:51:01 localhost mDNSResponder[175]: mDNSResponder Sleeping at
58846790
Jun 28 18:51:07 localhost kernel: AppleNMI mask NMI
Jun 28 18:53:37 localhost kernel: System Sleep
Jun 28 18:53:40 localhost kernel: System Wake
Jun 28 18:53:40 localhost kernel: Wake event 0020
Jun 28 18:53:40 localhost kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI

Jun 28 17:53:58 localhost mDNSResponder[175]: mDNSResponder Sleeping at
57836764
Jun 28 17:54:03 localhost kernel: AppleNMI mask NMI
Jun 28 18:34:24 localhost kernel: System Sleep
Jun 28 18:34:27 localhost kernel: System Wake
Jun 28 18:34:27 localhost kernel: Wake event 0020
Jun 28 18:34:27 localhost kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI

Jun 28 15:26:00 localhost mDNSResponder[175]: mDNSResponder Sleeping at
53306722
Jun 28 15:26:05 localhost kernel: AppleNMI mask NMI
Jun 28 15:33:40 localhost kernel: System Sleep
Jun 28 15:33:43 localhost kernel: System Wake
Jun 28 15:33:43 localhost kernel: Wake event 0020
Jun 28 15:33:43 localhost kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI

Etc.

I've trashed Energy Plist to no avail. I've reset PRAM. Repaired
permissions.

Anybody know what "Wake event 0020" is? Anybody have suggestions?

Many thanks,
Steve.

Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Battery Life

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:07:37 YAKST

Hi!

My new Intel iMac 17" has a wireless keyboard and mouse. How long
should I expect the batteries to last?

The two mouse batteries seem to need changing about every two
months. I have never changed the four keyboard batteries.

Thanks!

earle
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Does Apple Remote Desktop work when monitor is asleep?

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:40:18 YAKST

Does Apple Remote Desktop work when monitor is asleep? I set up a
router and a Mac Mini at a location far from home. The Mini is running
OSX 10.4 and ARD3 with VNC. While still at that location, I verified
that the Mini accepted VNC connections from outside the router (I set
up port forwarding on the router, of course, and VNC-ed into it from
outside the router). Now that I'm back home I can no longer VNC into
the Mac. It says "connection failed." The only thing I can think of is
that on the Mini the energy saver feature turned off the monitor. Is
there any chance that this would affect ARD or VNC?

Thanks.

John

Wake-on-Lan on OS 9.2.2

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:10:36 YAKST

Hi, I have two G4's, each with OS 9.2.2 and OS X (10.2.8). I'm trying
to wake them up with magic packets -- one works, the other doesn't. As
far as I can tell, I've configured all the relevant settings the same
(i.e., checked "wake on network administrative access," made sure
tcp/ip and appletalk are set to use Ethernet, etc.).

The 733MHz G4 always wakes up when I send it the magic packet (I'm
using wol.exe from http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm on a windows
machine). The Dual 1-GHz G4 does not wake up if I've gone to sleep
from OS 9.2.2, but it DOES wake up if I've gone to sleep from OSX
10.2.8, so that seems to rule out that the network card isn't
compatible or that there are connection or hardware problems.

Are there other settings that I should be checking are identical? Or
does anyone know of certain configurations or extensions that prevent
wake-on-lan?

Background: I am trying to wake the machines at night for a daily
backup. Users often run them in OS9 when they need to run certain
apps. I thought about that maybe these apps are leaving files open,
etc., but I've tried going to sleep right after a clean boot and still
can't wake it up. In all cases, tapping the mouse or the keyboard
wakes the computer up fine.

Other info that may or may not be relevant: both machines have DAVE
filesharing software, v.4.1. For everything I could think to check,
the DAVE settings are configured identically (except for the name, of
course). Also, both machines are configured for DHCP and the "DHCP
Client ID" setting is blank. Both are getting registered on the DHCP
server with the correct MAC address.

Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated.
Thanks much!

Cee Bee

Mac Mini wakes up

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:51:27 YAKST

The display of my Mac Mini goes to sleep after ten idle minutes, e.g.
when I download. If I intend to leave the computer idle, I put it to
sleep.

Sometimes the display is awake when I return half an hour after putting
the computer to sleep. What wakes it up? Does Tiger keep a log of such
things?

Cpu Sleep is ending my internet connection?

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:27:00 EST

I have a dsl internet connection. Normally when I am connected to the
internet, and my computer goes to sleep, the internet will still be
connected. But all of a sudden today, when ever I leave my computer
idle and it falls asleep, it disconnects me from the internet. Does
anyone know what might have set this off? And is there a way to correct
this? My energy settings are the Same as usual. Which is to sleep after
1 minute of inactivity.

Airport Connection Yo-Yo (i.e. up/down)

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:55:09 EST

Quick Summary: PowerBook's Airport connection goes up/down like a
yo-yo. Appears to be solved by resetting NVRAM. OS X 10.4.4 & 10.4.5
with all updates.

Hello All --

An intermittant problem with Airport connections going up and down
(like a yo-yo) has recently become much worse. The connection drops
out, all the bars go gray in the indicator. A connection seldom lasts
longer than an hour making it very difficult to work. This is on two
G4 PowerBooks, one 10.4.5 and one 10.3.9 with Linksys WRT54g access
points.

My recent testing:
- When the indicator shows no bars, MacStumbler will sometimes show
the access point, sometimes not. In one interval, I had MacStumbler
showing updated signal strength for a full two minutes during which
time I could not get the AP to show up in the Airport menu.
- Eventually, the access point shows up in the Airport menu again. I
can then select it and re-establish the connection. With no action on
my part, the mac will reconnect to the access point after several
minutes. This is the yo-yo behavior.
- When the indicator shows no bars, and repeated attempts to get bars
fail, the Intel iMac right beside me is having no problem with the same
access point.
- When the indicator shows no bars, cycling "Turn Airport OFF - Turn
Airport ON" brings back the connection with full function. After a
while, the problem repeats. Yo-yo.
- When the indicator shows no bars, the lights on the WRT54g access
point are normal.
- Connection drops appear to be more are likely when the PowerBook is
making less use of the connection... For example, when working locally
and occasionally getting a web page... than when using the connection
constantly (ssh terminal session). But, running a ping constantly
doesn't keep the connection up. Confusing.
- The problem has gotten bad enough that it's very hard to work on the
affected PowerBooks.

I had seen instances of this in the past, but only occasionally. I
sense that something is accumulating because I see a steady worsening
in both PowerBooks.

Both PowerBooks move from one building to another. There are Linksys
WRT54g's in both locations, setup identically and with the same SSID.
Don't know if this is related or not.

Reading MacFixit suggests reseting NVRAM... I'm trying this on one of
the Powerbooks. Seems to be working. How to reset NVRAM? See:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449

Problem isolation... The problem appears...
- On two several-times-updated G4 PowerBooks, but not on a new Intel
iMac. Might be related to several-times-updated vs. a fresh install.
- On 10.4.5 and 10.3.9 (so it's not just one version)
- With Linksys WRT54g access points in two different locations (so
it's not local interference or a bad access point)
- On two different PowerBooks (so it's not a bad Airport card)
- With increasing frequency over time. Appears to be something that
accumulates. When you first see it, you just say "flaky wireless", but
later it's happening every 15 minutes, up/down, like a yo-yo.

I hope the NVRAM has fixed it. Any other ideas/experiences?

-- Sally

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Airport in battery woes

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:46:51 EST

Likewise an older poster here (Jan 2006 it seems) I have a very very
odd problem with my iBook. When at home, with my horrible d-link di-514
wireless router, if I disconnect the power source from my iBook, data
stops transfering between my iBook and the router suddenly, the
connection is not dropped though, only no data comes or goes... if I
just plug in the iBook back, without touching or moving it, the data
stream resumes working!!!

I do not have a mac store nearby, so I can't visit one to check. Any
suggestions please?

OS X broadband dropping out during sleep mode

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:43:46 EST

Hello Mac users,

I am looking for some help with a friends' PC. Her new broadband
connection drops out overnight - while the Mac is in sleep mode, then
won't connect automatically the next morning as it wakes up. It seems
to think it's still connected. Only a restart on the mac will solve
this.

I've figured out it's some kind of idle timeout issue. See the log
below:

Wed Feb 15 15:18:12 2006 : ipcp: up
Wed Feb 15 15:18:12 2006 : local IP address 80.41.231.7
Wed Feb 15 15:18:12 2006 : remote IP address 212.74.111.192
Wed Feb 15 15:18:12 2006 : primary DNS address 80.225.249.178
Wed Feb 15 15:18:12 2006 : secondary DNS address 80.225.255.58
Wed Feb 15 15:23:47 2006 : Terminating on signal 15.
Wed Feb 15 15:23:47 2006 : ipcp: down Wed Feb 15 15:23:47 2006 : sent
[LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User request"]
Wed Feb 15 15:23:47 2006 : rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2] Wed Feb 15
15:23:47 2006 : Connection terminated.
Wed Feb 15 15:23:47 2006 : Connect time 5.7 minutes.
Wed Feb 15 15:23:47 2006 : Sent 15515 bytes, received 51892 bytes. Wed
Feb 15 15:23:48 2006 : Serial link disconnected.

I understand signal 15 is one way unix can force termination of a
process. Is there some way to keep the modem connection alive without
completely disabling power saving? Tiscali refuse to give mac support -
although they seemed happy to sell her this broadband solution for her
mac?!?

Tiscali 1Mb broadband
Speedtouch 330 USB
Applemac with OS X

Any suggestions hints or tips are welcome.

Many thanks in advance

iBook G4 WiFi problems when on battery

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:28:58 EST

Hardware: iBook g4 800mhz w/AirPort Extreme
Software: OS X 10.4 (latest updates)

This is a weird issue that started recently (but can't be attributed to
a particular OS update or other event):

WiFi becomes almost unusable when on battery power. I've checked
system preferences and set everything up to maximize performance while
on battery power. Still no dice. The connection strength/quality
still looks good and a ping doesn't reflect any major connection
problems. Yet when browsing any site the performance is horrible. It
tightens right back up if I plug into AC power.

I don't even know where to start looking. Software? Hardware?
Unfortunately I do not have a spare AirPort card to try. Can anybody
help me out here?

Thanks,
Brian

PCI USB 2.0 IOGear card & Sleep issues

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:16:56 EST

I got it working with SLEEP but discovered an issue with the iPod.

I just installed a PCI USB 2.0 IOGear 5 port card in this G4 QuickSilver:

G4 933 2002 model
Tiger 10.4.2
1GB RAM
PCI SCSI card 2930CU

This G4 runs perfectly, and while I lost automatic DEEP SLEEP more than
a year ago (Jag or Panther not sure) it would manually go to SLEEP even
with the SCSI card.

On installing the IOGear card all seemed okay until I hooked up a 4thGen
iPod and even tho the iPod was dismounted (but still connected via the
IOGear USB 2.0 card) when I put the G4 to SLEEP manually the display
blanked but G4 remained on & running and did not SLEEP and worse, it
would not WAKE up & had to POWER Button 5 sec to get it OFF.

Subsequent experimenting it seems if iPod is connected mounted or
ejected but still connected via the PCI USB 2.0 IOGear card it will not
SLEEP & won't WAKE. Only way out is to POWER Button 5 sec route. Once
rebooted & removed iPod it WILL SLEEP & WAKE okay.

Obviously, I won't ever SLEEP this G4 with an iPod connected again.

Is this normal for IOGear or other PCI USB 2.0 cards?

=======
Main reason I put in the USB 2.0 card is I bought a 5th Gen iPod Video
for my daughter for Christmas (not opened yet or even checked it out
yet) and that iPod Video will sync ONLY via USB not Firewire as my older
4th Gen iPod would do.

Main music MP3 library is on this G4 mac so it seemed best to install a
USB 2.0 card in it.

I know some added hardware peripherals will not allow DEEP SLEEP. At
least this PCI card will work if no iPod is actually connected.

Thanks for comments in advance.

Morenuf
--
morenuf@nobodyhome.com.invalid

Running shell script when laptop is closed

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:50:36 EST

I have a 15-inch 1.7 GHz PowerBook running OS X Tiger. When I'm
troubleshooting Windows LANs, I often hook my laptop into them so I can
use command-line programs like nmap and nc on them. This is fine for
smaller networks, but it gets to be very tedious in networks that have
been divided into lots of smaller networks with routers. What I want
to do is be able to just leave a shell script running in a continuous
loop, and then just connect the laptop into the LAN for a few minutes,
let the shell script run, then unplug it and move on to the next
segment. But I can't find a way to get the shell script to run
continuously when the laptop is closed. Is there any way to have it
wake up when it detects the ethernet connection, or just not go to
sleep when it's closed?

Auto-reconnect to network after sleep?

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:12:40 EST

When I wake my Powerbook (G4 15" 10.3.9) after sleep, I always have to
reconnect to my home wireless network manually. Is there some way to set
things so the Powerbook will reconnect automatically, or not drop the
connection in the first place?

Susan K
--
Dr. Susan Kayser SDSS at FermiLab

iBook G4 1Ghz - Charging Issue

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:53:45 YAKST

In <1123553238.12fbd223af8738d4757ac8a59c5db0f8@meganetnews2>
On 2005-08-09 SOL <iamsol@earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Can anyone tell me if they have seen this glitch before... I charge my
> 4 month old ibook G4 1 Ghz to 100% then I use it (on battery) for most
> of the day at work. When I get home I rechage it until the menu bar
> indicator shows charged. Now if I check the percentage it only show
> 99.7%, then if I let this go (and don't reset the power manager) after
> the next couple of charges it show 97 to 97% (the time remaining is
> about 4.55 hours). Now if I reset the power manager it fixes the issue
> but this has been like this since day 1. My ibook has the following
> specs>
>
> G4 1 Ghx Processor
> 768MB Ram
> 40GB HD
> No airport or blue tooth options
> OS X 10.4.2 (started out on 10.3.3 and was soon upgraded to 10.3.9 then
> to 10.4).
>
> Thanks for nay info.

Don't mess with it. And don't fret. It's supposed to do that.

I have some questions for you:

How low does it go (typically) when you "use it (on battery) for most
of the day at work"? Have you done this for 4 months daily? I.E. about
100 times?

Have you ever calibrated your battery?

Bonus question -- in terminal -- what does

/usr/sbin/ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n battery -w0 | grep Bat

return?

-- Peter (please post -- I don't read sympatico (hot)mail)

RE: iBook G4 1Ghz - Charging Issue

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:07:18 YAKST

Can anyone tell me if they have seen this glitch before... I charge my
4 month old ibook G4 1 Ghz to 100% then I use it (on battery) for most
of the day at work. When I get home I rechage it until the menu bar
indicator shows charged. Now if I check the percentage it only show
99.7%, then if I let this go (and don't reset the power manager) after
the next couple of charges it show 97 to 97% (the time remaining is
about 4.55 hours). Now if I reset the power manager it fixes the issue
but this has been like this since day 1. My ibook has the following
specs>

G4 1 Ghx Processor
768MB Ram
40GB HD
No airport or blue tooth options
OS X 10.4.2 (started out on 10.3.3 and was soon upgraded to 10.3.9 then
to 10.4).

Thanks for nay info.
--
SOL - For Now

Out of Sleep: No Router Address

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:30:39 YAKST

I've recently noticed that, when I take my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook out
of sleep, it fails to connect to the internet. It's doing so via
AirPort, using my NETGEAR WGR614v4.

More specifically, what I find in the TCP/IP tab of the AirPort
configuration of the Network System Preferences thingie, is that DHCP
gives it an IP Address and a Subnet Mask, but no Router IP Address.
Poking the "Renew DHCP Lease" button doesn't change that situation.

It doesn't seem to be having any difficulties physically communicating
over AirPort, since the NETGEAR critter's DHCP server is successfully
supplying an IP address for it. Also, the signal strength meter in the
menu bar is showing up at full power, and I've never seen it have
problems other than when coming out of sleep.

Do any of you have any guesses as to what could cause it to not get a
router address (only)?

Thanks for the ideas!

--

(Preferably reply to the newsgroup, please. If you reply by Email, I
will sincerely try to receive your message, but it will probably get
buried in spam.)

kernel panics on shutdown -- 10.4.1

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:25:18 YAKST

I've been getting kernel panics after installing 10.4.1 (which I did
shortly after it came out). Today, the same thing happened after the QT
7.0.1 update. This time I disconnected all external devices except for
my Apple keyboard and mouse. Machine is 17" iMac G4 800 with 756 MB RAM.
Didn't happen under 10.4.0. Seems to be more than a chance occurrence
now.

I can post one of the panic logs if anyone can read it.

robert

Airport Network turns off when asleep?

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:56:37 YAKST

Hi everybody,

I have a problem that has popped up in the last few weeks or so and I
can't seem to be able to find a solution.

If I leave my computer running and it falls asleep, my airport network
also stops and subsequently drops me off the internet. The network used
to remaion active while the computer was in Sleep Mode.

How can I turn this option back on?

--
Thanks a lot,
Danny

G4 power-up

Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:10:48 YAKST

"Ron Lee" <rgl4508@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:rgl4508-B700EE.13053526062005@news.east.earthlink.net...
> Lately I have been having problems with power-up on my G4. I have in the
> past always powered down and unplugged the computer when there is
> lightning in the area. Now I can not power-up immediately after plugging
> in the computer. After it sits for several hours then it will power-up.
> Sleep and shut down are fine. Only unplugging is a problem.

I once had a Mac IIfx that did this.

If it's not the battery (and from other posts it sounds like it isn't) it
might be as simple as a dry joint or similar in the switch-mode power
supply. Most desktop computers have power supplies that are "always on",
which means that the "side" of the supply closest to the mains supply is on
power whenever it's plugged in. You may find that it's only when the mains
"side" of the PSU has a joint somewhere that only contacts when it's nice
and warm.

What happens if you unplug it for just a few seconds, then plug back in and
try to start up? If it starts up then the above may be the problem. If it
doesn't, then forget everything I've said :-)

D.