[KianD]

I've got an October 2004 revision iBook 12", and no matter what options I try in Energy Saving, I cannot stop the laptop going to sleep when I close the lid on battery power.

I got the iBook for a project which involves warwalking (don't ask...). KisMAC does the job well, but I can't have the laptop open or on AC power in my backpack....

I'm aware of the heat risks, etc, but as the laptop is for short-term use only (at the moment, if I grow to like OSX, that may change), its not an issue.

So is there any way to make it stay awake permanently?

[D'Espice]

I'm pretty sure there is a tool that does exactly that but I forgot what it's called. Try the search in this forums, you'll definitely find it. After all, this question pops up once or twice a month.

[KianD]

Originally posted by D'Espice:
I'm pretty sure there is a tool that does exactly that but I forgot what it's called. Try the search in this forums, you'll definitely find it.

OK, I'll dig a bit deeper - I did check before posting but nothing came up.

After all, this question pops up once or twice a month.

One of the inevitable newbie questions, then...

Might be an idea to have a FAQ in each forum to stop people like me asking the same question a million times....

Thanks

[D'Espice]

Yeah we already considered and discussed that.

PS: I just remembered what the application is called... NoSleep

[KianD]

As a reference to anyone else looking for the answer to this

http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/meltmac/ seems to do the job but states that under 10.3 the OS will still cut the machine out after 4 minutes

http://www.alxsoft.com/mac/sleepless.html also seems to do it, but may also have the 10.3 problem. Will test later, I'm under BeOS ATM.

I'm tempted to just use the magnet-next-to-panel trick that another thread here mentioned...

[KianD]

Heh, seems to be a lot of ways of doing it then

ONE of them has to work

I've run my Sony Vaio closed in a bag for 3 hours, so I'm sure the iBook can handle an hour closed without damage. After all, Apple hardware is meant to be better, right :-)

[D'Espice]

One way to make sure it won't overheat is to set the CPU speed to minimal in the energy settings preference panel.

[KianD]

OK, all of these seem to suffer the PMU bug/feature/whatever, except maybe NoSleep, which wants to get a kernel patch from somewhere, which it can't as I'm behind an authenticating proxy server...

Back to x86 I go for anything that needs laptop awake in bag it seems.