Comment 63 for bug 869502

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Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix) wrote :

Just a notice because it seems there are more panics when using the battery of while the system was on idle for some time.

The wifichip from the eeepc 901

Model: "RaLink RT2860"
  Vendor: pci 0x1814 "RaLink"
  Device: pci 0x0781 "RT2860"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1814 "RaLink"
  SubDevice: pci 0x2790
  Driver: "rt2800pci"
  Driver Modules: "rt2800pci"

has some functions to reduce the power of the wifi-card. You can easily reproduce this "feature" when pluging off the ac-adapter. wifi speed is going here from 54mbit/s to a lower value. Directly after pluging in the ac adapter again its 54mbit/s.

This power-saving-feature can be a reason for more panics on battery or idle.

Most of my panics are happening after 5-10minutes when i am not using the netbook and when i am looking the reports from the others, it seems to be the same.

Maybe this make the debugging some kind of easier.

btw, still no panic on 3.0.6