Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:15:49 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad overheating when talking to a D-Link wireless AP Message-ID: <20020715181549.GA90643@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20020715140132.70772.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com> References: <15666.52258.20053.339128@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> <20020715140132.70772.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:01:32AM -0700, robert Backhaus wrote: > I May be on the wrong foot, but are they all logically > switches, or are some hubs? I the D-Link is a logical > hub, you would be processing many packets, just to see > they don't apply. Maybe possible.? The 900-AP might be a hub, but I believe the 5000AP is supposed to be a switch as it does CSMA/CA instead of /CD would that be a correct assumtion if it does do the CA instead of CD. I'm only vouching for the 5000AP > > I noticed that my -STABLE thinkpad X23 gets very hot > > when talking to a > > D-LINK DWL900-AP but not to other access points. It > > will get uncomfortably > > hot, and the fan would go to high (loud) mode. > -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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