Re: Pentium 4 - M

From: John Opezdol (chungachanga_at_howdoesitsoundtoyou.au)
Date: 01/08/04


Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:42:33 -0800


"Silviu Minut" <minutsil@cse.msu.edu> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.01.07.18.54.04.201117@cse.msu.edu...
> I got a Sony Vaio PCG-V505DC2P laptop recently, and I have some

How noisy is the fan on that thing?

> questions about the processor. I haven't kept up to date with
> the latest news from Intel.
>
> I compiled the 2.6 kernel and it identifies the processor as a P4-M:
> (See below). So I looked at
>
> http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/processors/pentium4-m/
>
> and I see that it has (builtin?) wireless? What exactly does it
> mean? Do I not need a pcmcia wireless card anymore? Is that
> supported in Linux? Thanks!
>
>
> 6) silviu:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 15
> model : 2
> model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz
> stepping : 9
> cpu MHz : 2187.850
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
> bogomips : 4308.99
>



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