Posts by egalus

This question can't be answered easily as it is always the combo of antenna, wifi card and drivers for the used os that make wifi work good or bad or somewhere in between. A bad antenna placement (which is quite common) can render a...

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ Mello Don't mean to be blunt, but you don't want them to turn off. That would mean your laptop isn't being cooled at all and it will overheat. My notepal cooler has 2 fans in it and my...

Dapper Drake Beta is just great - after changing from stock kernel to 2.6.16 with some patches (linux-phc for undervolting, suspend2 for working suspend to disk). Boot time is really great and the network manager is great too (still I...

With your chipset you don't have a chance to do the pinmod trick so I guess you are stuck at 1.6ghz unless you a) find a way to change the clock in software (good luck) and b) start programming something for a)

As a general comment: On my Inspiron 6000 with ipw2200 wlan (the stock intel card for b/g wlan) does light the wlan led under windows, but linux seems not to be able to light it up, so I guess it has something to do with the linux...

Quote: Originally Posted by doggie96 heat over 50 c will shorten the lifespan t Yes, but to make it harder, any heat will shorten the lifetime, even if it is only 30°C, but the "lifetime-loss" is...

Another great (now discontinued) project for temps and voltages is motherboardmonitor.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kakarot Simple answer, no, the fan WILL NOT turn off unless it hits around 20 deg C which is nearly impossible unless you have a laptop cooler or something similar like a freezer cooling the...

Is your handys memory card mmc or sd? If it is sd it should work in the i6000 too, but if it is mmc you are out of luck as the i6000 slot only takes sd cards. If you don't like that complain to dell that they inserted a shitty chip that...

And again some "cool" guy doing some "cool" insurance fraud. Thanks for making insureances more expensive for honest users. @Chaosratt: If you feel personally offended by my answer I am glad, maybe it gets you to...