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Re: Hot wireless card



On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:27:42 +1100
"Sunny Wu" <yuk_ho@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently using THinkPad R31 (P3 1.13GHZ) and with
> built-in wireless antenna (Prism 2.5 using orinoco_pciu
> module as driver). When I am not using the wireless
> network, my card still generates heat which i can feel
> from my lap. Does any know how i can make it stop
> operating when i dont want it to? I tried to do "modprobe
> -r orinoco_pci' in debian 3.0 and it's still hot....
> 
> Help is appreciated.
> 
> Sunny
> 

How do you know it is the wireless the device generating the
heat? It could be somthing else, like the 1.13Ghz P3
proccesor Just a thought
hugo



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