[ltp] Re: choose a x30 or x31 or ... for second used laptop.

[Evgeni Golov]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:37:04 +0200 Fr=E9d=E9ric BOITEUX wrote:

> - the battery had the same age as the laptop, about 3 years, so I had
> only about 1 and 1/4 hour available... Using latest tickless kernels
> with appropriate patches and Powertop let me have up to 2 hours :-)

After tweaking, my X31 runs almost 6 hours with a new IBM battery ;)

> - the wireless card installed in my laptop wasn't supported by modern
> Linux (or without WPA :-(, so I have to replace it with linux-friendly
> one.

Dito, replaced the card with an Intel 2915 - works great.

Regards
Evgeni

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