@Michael Eklund Thanks for persisting in commenting on this bug -- it's also present in Debian Squeeze (as one would expect from such a generic cause).
@Florian M. The command I think he's suggesting is: iwconfig wlan0 power on As one can see in this (edited) output: root@poker:~# iwconfig wlan0 ... Power Management:off ... root@poker:~# iwconfig wlan0 power on root@poker:~# iwconfig wlan0 ... Power Management:on ... Having tried turning on power management, the result is not quite as neat and obvious for me as described by Micheal, but it seems that the same thing may well be going on, and if I turn of the wifi completely (with the switch on the side of the laptop) then it drops the temperature enough to result in a quiet fan. Power management on the wifi does drop the temperature a few degrees, but I think it's still just a little to high to let the fan throttle back in my case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380303 Title: thinkpad-acpi X200 Thinkpad fan fails to spin down . -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs