FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

[J. Martin Petersen]

Miles Keaton wrote:
> I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if
> anyone can explain ("for dummies") how to use the new cpufreq +
> SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the
> way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5?

I'm using powerd, it's working great.

Cheers, Martin