[ltp] T61 Atheros wireless LED

[Micha]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:53:11 +0100
Daniel Castro <castromd@tcd.ie> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have a T61 with the Atheros wireless card. The LED won't work, know issue.
> I was looking at 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_8.04_(Hardy_Heron)_on_a_ThinkPad_T61#Wireless_activity_LED
> It mentions that installing the linux-backports-modules-hardy would 
> enable the LED for the IWL4965 card.

It's different drivers that are gotten from different sources.

don't know the state of iwl4965 in the kernel, I used the version from
compatwireless at the time and you had to manually activate the led code.

For madwifi in unstable, I'm not sure yet which of the two is responsible but
you can get the led to blink on tx/rx by doing

sysctl  dev.wifi0.ledpin=1
sysctl  dev.wifi0.softled=1

I'm not sure what legal values there are, as far as I saw softled is a one bit
value so it's probably just 0 or 1.

I saw a patch somewhere that is supposed to allow it to just stay on. not sure
if it's incorporated into the debian driver.

There is also a ath5k driver both in the kernel and compatwireless but although
it recognises my card it fails to actually communicate. I've been told not long
ago on this list that it's because the card is pci-e and there is an issue with
the interrupts at the moment.

> Would there be backported modules for the Atheros there also?
> 
> Thanks!
>