[SOLVED] Automatically turn off wifi before and back on after suspend

[yobro]

Hello!

My network adapter is preventing my system to suspend to RAM in kernels higher than 4.8. I want to upgrade to 18.3 and am therefore looking for a workaround to suspend via command line. If I manually turn wifi off, the system suspends nicely.

I had something like this in mind:

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nmcli radio wifi off ; systemctl suspend ; nmcli radio wifi on

But the last command is executed before the system is suspended.

Does anyone have an idea?


After intensive research I gave up on how to get my network adapter working properly under kernels higher than 4.8. It is working, but still preventing the suspend
The output of

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lspci -nn

is:

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03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 20)

[orschiro]

But the last command is executed before the system is suspended.

You mean, WiFi is turned back on before the system had even suspended? Can you add a wait delay to this command sequence, in this case?

[yobro]

But the last command is executed before the system is suspended.

You mean, WiFi is turned back on before the system had even suspended? Can you add a wait delay to this command sequence, in this case?

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, it works, if you couple two delays:

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nmcli radio wifi off ; systemctl suspend ; sleep 15; sleep 2; nmcli radio wifi on

The first is necessary to wait for the system to suspend, the second to wait before turning wifi back on after waking up, because the command has no effect if executed directly after waking up.

It's not a clean solution with the absolute values for the delay, because depending on the state of the system the suspend takes different amounts of time. But I believe it will suffice until I replace my wifi module (it creates way too much trouble with both linux and windows).

Thanks, orschiro!

[orschiro]

Glad I could help.

[karlchen]

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