Ubuntu 8.04 & x31

[Heikki]

Hello

This is my first post to the forum and I do apologise my english in advance, it isn't my native language so there can be errors in text

Three days ago i purchased My first, working IBM Thinkpad. I almost immediatly threw Ubuntu linux at it and everything worked out of box. Suspending, Hibernation, adjusting sound and brightness with on-screen symbols, even Fn+F5 for switching wireless on-off.

Now only things i need to know are these:

1) Is it possible to start-up with wireless off, I usually use a wired network so i don't need wireless to be up right away.

2) Another thing is, I am not sure if my processor is doing this Speed-step at all. It seems (by Ubuntu resource monitor) that it is at 1,6 GHz all the time.

I would be very thankful if someone could give me some details in this matters.

Heikki

[gongo2k1]

assuming you have an intel card look here
for speedstep, make sure that the cpufreq modules are installed. check it with

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lsmod | grep "cpu"

if it doesn't return any lines, it's not loaded.
i'd be very surprised if it wasn't since this should load automatically on all popular distros.
right-click on the gnome panel and add the cpu frequency monitor, that will show you when the cpu ramps up and down with speedstep.

[Heikki]

Thank you

I do have an intel card like you assumed. Although mine is 2100, I think I'll try that one out with correct driver name. Shall see if those power-management features are working with this card as well. Thinkwiki didn't mention anything about that in section Ipw2100.