[ltp] sensors

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:41:30 -0200


On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, ~D wrote:
> On 11/28/2010 01:26 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >You will also want to disable WLAN (in BIOS even, if that will
> >hide the PCI device.  Otherwise, rfkilling it should be enough).
> >
> >Operate the 'to be silent' thinkpad using wired ethernet, at 100Mbps
> >(1Gbps dissipates a lot more heat).
> Is this also true for the T61?

It is true for everything, including swiches.

The newest GBE LOM NIC chips are a lot better, but they still draw at least
twice as much power in GBE mode than in FE mode.

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