[ltp] possible fan firmware bug after WLAN was active on X61s
Tino Keitel
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:46:06 +0200
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 23:03:20 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 17:33:52 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > - I enable the WLAN (load the driver, assosicate to an AP), use the
> > > connection a bit
> > >
> > > - the fan now always runs and doesn't go off anymore
> >
> > Even if you somehow cool the ThinkPad a great deal for half an hour?
>
> Hum, now the fan just stopped while I used the WLAN for quite some time
> (more than an hour), without extra cooling.
Currently, the ThinkPad is running with WLAN active and suspended to
RAM for a second after I enabled the WLAN. The fan isn't constantly
running but goes on and off with a ~2 min interval.
Regards,
Tino