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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next prev 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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