On 8/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Keating</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jkeating@redhat.com">jkeating@redhat.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I don&#39;t suspend when walking away because I don&#39;t want my wireless to<br>drop, I don&#39;t want to have to re-login to say t-mobile hot-spot, </blockquote><div><br>Yeah, sigh...these wifi browser prompts completely destroy the user experience for so many applications.&nbsp; My personal favorite is starting Firefox, clicking &quot;Resume session&quot; and getting 15 redirected login tabs.
<br><br>Long term I hope we can figure out some way to make that suck less.&nbsp; I don&#39;t have any good ideas right now about how to detect the situation initially.<br><br>That said though, maybe if we only suspend for say the time it takes to go to the bathroom (~2 minutes) it might not toss you back at that prompt.&nbsp; I&#39;m not sure how that works - if it authorizes your MAC address for X minutes or whether it&#39;s &quot;DHCP request implies prompt&quot;.&nbsp; In the latter case we might be able to fix NetworkManager to save its DHCP lease if it&#39;s within the lease time still and not do another request on unsuspend if it&#39;s the same network.
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