[ltp] Re: Increased power consumption after BIOS upgrade

[Jens Thiele]

Jens Thiele <karme@berlios.de> writes:

> after a BIOS upgrade from 2.17 to 2.22 on a Z61m I think power
> consumption went up dramatically as long as I have the ipw3945 driver
> loaded. (the same is true for bluetooth/uhci_hcd).
> AFAIR when the wireless lan was "idle" C3 state had around 90% before
> the the update and now it is around 45%.
> (kernel is 2.6.23.13).

Just for the archives:
It seems I upgraded the BIOS and the kernel at the same time and the
increase in power consumption was caused by the 2.6.23 kernel. Using
2.6.24 it seems back to normal.

Jens