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From: Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
To: Pedro Venda <pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: network card buzzing
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:11:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041209171138.GA3105@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B86243.7090507-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>

Hi!

> I tought it was normal to have a buzzing on the network card while it 
> transmits/receives high quanitities of data and using almost all of 
> it's bandwidth... I had such a network card on my desktop and now my 
> laptop does the same.
> 
> the laptop is a (smart-battery powered) acer travelmate 4001 WLMi and 
> the network card is a broadcom (b44) 10/100Mbps.
> 
> after rejecting the idea, I decided to try the same on another OS... 
> windows. it doesn't buzz while transmiting/receiving at 80Mbps 
> whereas on linux it does. one can hear exactly when there is activity 
> and when there isn't.
> 
> is this a problem? hardware issue? software issue? acpi? plain bad 
> luck? what is happening here?

Sining capacitors? See archives. idle=poll should fix it (evil grin).
				Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 14:33 network card buzzing Pedro Venda
     [not found] ` <41B86243.7090507-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-09 17:02   ` Jeroen Wijnhout
     [not found]     ` <200412091802.41329.Jeroen.Wijnhout-sVbgdUKTYbrR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-09 21:42       ` Pedro Venda
2004-12-09 17:11   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20041209171138.GA3105-u08AdweFZfgxtPtxi4kahqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-10 19:46       ` Karol Kozimor
     [not found]         ` <20041210194641.GA26799-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org>
2004-12-10 21:25           ` Pavel Machek

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