this was in the meetings thread...
maybe you can help me with my laptop. damn thermal zone isnt recognised in 2.6.0, so i can only turn the fan on flat out, or off (and overheat)
btw, in 2.4.* you cant even turn the fan on - overheats in a few minutes.
theres a dsdt patch for 2.4.18 which fixes it, but i cant work out how to apply it to the 2.6.0 kernel.
it doesnt seem to use the same data structure? ?:(
<edit> Syd Hancock:
Sorry, I have no idea at all, other than the obvious comment that 2.4 and 2,6 kernels are very different. A message to the list may get you some useful feedback as several people are testing versions of 2.6
I have seen on the Thinkpad list that there are some builds specifically for laptops (may be Thinkpad only?) which may help as this may be an ACPI problem. Google for Andrew Morton's patches e.g. 2.6.0-test6-mm1 (the mm suffix indicates that it is an Andrew Morton patch).
running 2.6.0-test6-mm. dosent help.
got a new problem: my bootiful new cisco 352 802.11b pcmcia card will send....but not receive. same card works a different laptop. i can talk to the card, get model number, mac address etc etc but although it requests a dhcp lease, it ignores the response... if i manually assign, it will ping itself but merely drops the packets sent anywhere else. the hub reports it present (i turned off its mac address and it then logged warnings about it) - and YES i did turn it back on.
On Monday 06 October 2003 10:49, Tristan Scott wrote:
this was in the meetings thread...
maybe you can help me with my laptop. damn thermal zone isnt recognised in 2.6.0, so i can only turn the fan on flat out, or off (and overheat)
btw, in 2.4.* you cant even turn the fan on - overheats in a few minutes.
theres a dsdt patch for 2.4.18 which fixes it, but i cant work out how to apply it to the 2.6.0 kernel.
it doesnt seem to use the same data structure? ?:(
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got a new problem: my bootiful new cisco 352 802.11b pcmcia card will send....but not receive. same card works a different laptop. i can talk to the card, get model number, mac address etc etc but although it requests a dhcp lease, it ignores the response... if i manually assign, it will ping itself but merely drops the packets sent anywhere else. the hub reports it present (i turned off its mac address and it then logged warnings about it) - and YES i did turn it back on.
Fan/Heat problem
You may have missed a post I made earlier regarding a similar problem. ACPI could be the cause, but then I assume this is what you are using to control the fan in the first place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Thursday 17 July 2003 21:29, Louise J M Worthington wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1301XV laptop with a mobile Athlon XP 1500+. I have tried using Debian, but the CPU gets worryingly hot and the fan is constantly on.
Ahh I've had this one before. My Compaq suffered from this as well
For me installing ACPI modules into the kernel and disabling APM did the trick. You need to turn off APM by either not loading the APM module or passing the relevant parameter to the kernel at boot.
After that you should find that the fan isn't trying to make your laptop achieve take off, CPU should run at the normal temp and your battery life should improve dramatically.
Here is a useful How to that's geared towards Debian http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/
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PCMCIA card.
Apart from thinking how this sounds like IPchains filtering I can't think of anything at the moment, sorry Does anything appear in the logs, is DHCP running from your hub or dhcpd on another machine.
Have you ever had the laptop running with another card (wireless or otherwise)
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