I had written a HowTo about adding Suspend support in VL 5.8, but its missing along with the other HowTos due to a problem when the forum software was upgraded.
Hopefully those will be recovered...
Anyway, adding Suspend support involves patching the kernel source code and compiling a new kernel
If you feel up to it, I can give you a condensed guide that should get you going.
Yeah, if the new kernel in this SOHO 5.8 don't have it, I'm willing to go along with some
instruction.
[edit] .. if that is the remedy.. how can I go about investigating that on my machine?