[ltp] T61 Atheros wireless LED

[Chris Penn]

With my T61p, the wireless switch works great out of the box with
kernel 2.6.24.  The LED doesnt work, but i have never needed it.
I know that is not a solution nor expectable in general as far Laptop
compatibility goes, I just thought I would share.

Chris ...

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:26:53 +0200
> Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 07/23/2008 06:20 PM, Micha wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> That's the one I am using as well (openSUSE 11.0, using iwl4965 version
>> 1.2.26ks from compat-wireless-kmp-default-20080615_2.6.25.9_0.2-5.3). How did
>> you enable the LED there? Does it require recompiling the driver?
>>
>> Bye,
>>       LenZ
>
> It requires recompiling the driver (at least it was still so with version from
> 1 may 2008).
>
> You need to add to config.mk the following lines
> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y
> CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS=y
> CONFIG_IWL4965_LEDS=y
>
> I also added at the time:
> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_RFKILL=y
>
> to allow turning off the antenna from /sys
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