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 80030000 > eth1: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0000 > 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 -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net ---
