I have this netbook, or better my girlfriend had it until its AC connector melted. I luckily fixed it by soldering and began to play around with Linux since it was now unused. After installing my beloved Arch i ran into this problem, and any other kernel/distro did the same.
After a while, having already lost any hope, I opened again its bag to begin a small home server experiment, installed the "almost ready" Debian 8 Jessie and surprisingly discovered that it has been miraculously fixed. It quickly suspends through systemd-logind with either Fn+F1 (the small blue moon shortcut) and even closing lid, then it quickly resumes with either power button or even any other key, just like it had XP with all his vendor's drivers installed.
Jessie runs a 3.16 kernel, but any other kernel/distro i tried ranging from old Debian's 3.2 up to latest Arch's 3.18, even if through the same systemd's pm-suspend command, show no way to wake up and resume.
Anybody knows what's the Debian's kernel patch that fix this? Is there any chance for it to reach mainstream or any other distro? I'm unable to find anything about this, the only proof of its existence is the now fully working netbook.

debian has an eeepc-laptop kernel module along with special eeepc-acpi-scripts. I don't know if those are installed for you or not, but its something to check. there is a jessie version but I don't know if its installed by default.

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I have this netbook, or better my girlfriend had it until its AC connector melted. I luckily fixed it by soldering and began to play around with Linux since it was now unused. After installing my beloved Arch i ran into this problem, and any other kernel/distro did the same.
After a while, having already lost any hope, I opened again its bag to begin a small home server experiment, installed the "almost ready" Debian 8 Jessie and surprisingly discovered that it has been miraculously fixed. It quickly suspends through systemd-logind with either Fn+F1 (the small blue moon shortcut) and even closing lid, then it quickly resumes with either power button or even any other key, just like it had XP with all his vendor's drivers installed.
Jessie runs a 3.16 kernel, but any other kernel/distro i tried ranging from old Debian's 3.2 up to latest Arch's 3.18, even if through the same systemd's pm-suspend command, show no way to wake up and resume.
Anybody knows what's the Debian's kernel patch that fix this? Is there any chance for it to reach mainstream or any other distro? I'm unable to find anything about this, the only proof of its existence is the now fully working netbook.

I checked, acpid scripts for eee are not installed and neither acpid is running at all! Debian 8 must be using the new systemd for power management. It indeed works either with closing lid or sleep button (Fn+Zz) and also with "systemctl suspend". Moreover, it works also with the OLD 3.2 kernel from Wheezy, which on the other side didn't work after standard installation (Debian stable uses acpid and still has not systemd by default).
Now it looks like that Debian's systemd fixes the problem, also for other kernels. Unlucky it's still the only distro which resumes after "systemd suspend". I'll wait for next Ubuntu with systemd to see if it inherits this fix, whatever it is...

Suspend, hibernation are buggy in linux. Always try to use newest kernels. Or avoid them altogether.