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[Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray]

>> http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/powertop-manu
>>
>> This is the powertop output from my friend's laptop. He was using
>> Gnome-terminal, Firefox and Gaim.
>>
>> [manu at jasmine ~]$ uname -a
>> Linux jasmine 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:21:43 EDT 2007
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> [manu at jasmine ~]$
>>
>> Hardinfo: http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/hardinfo-manu
>> Smolt profile:
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=ed2ac1d9-f254-403f-b431-5670ae08c597

> seems like he uses a forcedeth nic can you tell him to try the module
> options from my other post to see if it helps?

I told him, but he is now using ndiswrapper for his WLAN card. In any
case here is a newer powertop dump with ndiswrapper on:
http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/powertop-manu-1

Cheers,
Debarshi
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