Re: iBook G3 annoyances

[Balogh, Karoly (Charlie/iNQ)]

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Børge Holen wrote:

  Is there an easy (automated) way to disable freq switching and run at
  600Mhz when running from AC power?

 Have you tried:
 onAC_Policy   = performance
 in pbbuttons.conf?

Yes, i tried that already, and didn't help. It still switches frequency.
I wonder why though, because i have different setting for onBattery_Policy
(powersave), but there's no difference in the behaviour of the machine.
Or at least it looks there's none...

Bye,
Charlie

Re: iBook G3 annoyances

[Børge Holen]

On Monday 25 September 2006 01:10, Balogh, Karoly (Charlie/iNQ) wrote:
 Hi,

 I got Linux running on my iBook G3/600. Runs very fine, but i've two
 question about it.

 First: some daemon (i guess pbbuttonsd or powernowd) always sets the CPU
 freq back to 400Mhz even when running from AC power. This is quite
 annoying, since there are some hickups in the running of the machine,
 (eg: clicks in the sound) when switching between 400Mhz and 600Mhz. I can
 live with these when running from battery, but it's annoying when i need
 performance, and plug the machine to use AC power.


 Is there an easy (automated) way to disable freq switching and run at
 600Mhz when running from AC power?

Have you tried:
onAC_Policy   = performance 
in pbbuttons.conf?


 Second: the driver of the airport card seems to be quite limited, and not
 supports raw monitoring(?) for now, which effectively disables all kinds
 of wardriving/sniffing etc tools to be used on this machine under Linux.
 If i get it well, according to the dmesg output, this driver was done by
 Ben Herrenschmidt. Is there a chance to support the raw mode on this card
 sometime soon?

 I'd be happy to volunteer if some test environment is needed...

 Kernel displays the following info about the card:

 orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel
 Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED], et al)
 airport 0.15rc3 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt
 [EMAIL PROTECTED])
 airport: Physical address 8003
 eth1: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:
 eth1: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:0046
 eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
 eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
 eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
 eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:11:ED:FB
 eth1: Station name HERMES I
 eth1: ready
 airport: Card registered for interface eth1

 lshw output:

   *-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: eth1
serial: 00:30:65:11:ed:fb
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15rc3
 firmware=Lucent/Agere 8.70 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b

 Bye,
 Charlie

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