madwifi-ng

[Alexander von Zastrow]

its the original card. didnt change anything (except i smashed my usb ports ;) but thats definively not my problem) on my laptop.

regards,

alex

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:50:53 +0200 (CEST)
> Von: Tomas Lund <tlund at nxs.se>
> An: Alexander von Zastrow <alex.zastrow at gmx.de>
> Betreff: re: madwifi-ng

> 
> > I was just trying to optimize my laptops power consumption. I have an 
> > Atheros WiFi Card installed (ThinkPad T41p). Im using madwifi-ng on 
> > gentoo. On Powertop i see, that the ath-module causes (when turned on my
> > wifi card) my CPU not to enter C3/C4. When I'm connected via cable, I 
> > can get almost 95% C3/C4.
> >
> > Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Or can anybody give me a 
> > hint so that i can solve the problem b myself (cuz im actually not used 
> > to write kernel stuff code...)?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is this an original card that came with the laptop, or have you installed 
> a new card? The reason I ask is because of the PCI-ID whitelisting that 
> exists in the bios, and how you got around it, in case you installed a new
> card.
> 
> //tlund

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