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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,21:30 QUOTE
Anyone know how to tell a laptop not to put itself to sleep when it's lid is closed?  I've got an ancient Toshiba that I'd like to use for kismet but it keeps putting itself to sleep when the lid gets closed. What config options/settings should I look into to get it to keep itself awake even when the lid's closed?

Alternatively, of course, I can just whack out the switch it uses to detect the lid being closed!
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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,07:11 QUOTE
I bet that the is no way for software to interact with this feature and its just controlled by the motherboard/bios.

Get a dickie bird and put it on the control button :D

I don't think software would be able to generate the necessary hardware interupts to stop the suspend either.
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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,23:54 QUOTE
I found the switch.  I disconnected it from the motherboard.  Now it doesn't go to sleep when the lid's closed.  Yay!
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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,01:08 QUOTE
I was going to suggest filing down the notebook-lid-closing-button-actuator-tab, but your method seems to make more sense.
Congrats!
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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,17:45 QUOTE
HARSH!

Did you check the bios to see if you could disable sleep there.
F1 or ESC +F1 during startup if I remember right.

If that doesn't help try downloanding toshset from:
http://www.schwieters.org/toshset/

It is a command line tool that lets you control you Toshiba laptop.  Stuff like fan and cpu speed.  Lots of fun to play with.  The down side is it likes DLS 2.0 (kernel 2.4.31)

Good luck

KC
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