[ltp] fan issues T43p

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 13:07:15 +0100, Daniel Skorka wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:28:38AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > I've heard that this is a problem with missing power management of
> > PCIe, and maybe it gets even worse due to the fact that the WLAN is
> > always active in this T43.
> 
> By 'missing', do you mean that PCIe has no power managment by design? Or
> is it just that Thinkpads are missing the needed parts?

The Intel chipset that was used in those ThinkPads has no power
management features for the PCIe components. I don't know if this has
changed with the Core (2) Duo models.

> WLAN: I don't know about WinXP, but in linux there is
> /sys/class/net/eth1/device/rf_kill

Well, with "active" I mean "is always in use", so there is no
motivations to switch it off. :-)

Regards,
Tino