[Info-vax] FreeAXP loses network connectivity when laptop is woken up from "sleep"

[John Wallace]

On May 4, 3:20 pm, presnyprek... at gmail.com wrote:
> > What Windows version is this?
>
> Sorry! I meant to include that information. It's Vista.
>
> > In which case I'll guess that at least part of this is OpenVPN
> > related.
>
> I'm guessing the same.
>
> I'd love to try running FreeAXP in a VM, but the processor on this laptop is a Core2Duo T5670 which does not support VT-x. IIRC this means I cannot present more than one core to a VM. That rules out running FreeAXP in a VM.
>
> Sounds like I need to get a laptop with a better CPU, or add a NIC using the ExpressCard slot. I have one here, but it's PCMCIA.

I'm not an expert on x86 processor numbers but my current laptop here
is a not particularly modern (2008?) HP Compaq 6715b which Windows XP
says has an AMD Turion 64X2 Mobile TL-60 Inside. Under a "prepared
earlier" config of VMware Player 4.0.1 with SuSe 11.3 as guest OS, KDE/
SuSe apparently sees the processor as dual core, the same as Windows
sees it (though normally I run with VMware Player manually overridden
down to single core because of a VMware mouse-button-loss issue which
at one time looked multiprocessor-related).

So unless you are already confident that dual core virtualisation
doesn't work for your config, VMware Player might be worth a look
(even though I was half joking when I mentioned it - it does introduce
yet more unnecessary extra failure modes). It's free to download and
use, even for commercial use.

The HPQ 6715b already comes with two NICs built in - WiFi and
classical LAN. Same applies to other WiFi-equipped laptops I've had
(and seen). Does that not apply to your laptop?