Re: laptop battery life
Adam Browning <[email protected]>
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I'm running FC2 on my laptop and I figured out how to extend the battery life for just over 4 hours using simple Linux tools. Probably the most important one it eh cpuspeed daemon/service. It will use SpeedStep to reduce the CPU speed thus saving a LOT of battery life! But the current cpuspeed module for the 2.6 kernel doesn't recognize the latest Pentium M chips, so the source had to be hacked by hand and recompiles (involves changing just one line, not very hard). Check google for the exact steps to getting cpuspeed running. On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 01:37 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:28 -0700, Robby Russell wrote: > > > Also, what are some good wifi cards for laptops that is fairly easy to > > get setup in Linux? > > I've got a Linksys "Instant Wireless" (Model WPC11 v.3) that was > instantly recognized on FC2. > > Regards, > Cliff > -- Adam Browning <[email protected]>