[ltp] Re: Wlan led with 2.6.31

[Jason Brooks]

Forgot to mention that it was on an HP dv9700 Laptop with a simalar
card. My Thinkpad has a intel card.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jason Brooks <jaybrooks76@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> I know that i can control it manually with sysctl
>
> sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=3D1
> sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3D1
>
> there are a few different options for ledpin. 0 was off or orange.
> solid was 1 (can rember what 2 is) and 3 is blink blue and white
> traffic activity.
>
> I don't know if this helps at all. (But I think it may)
>
> -JaY in WA-
>
> 2009/11/29 Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Boiteux <fboiteux@calistel.com>:
>> Le Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:40:21 -0200,
>> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> a =C3=A9crit :
>>
>>> Yes, always. =C2=A0No exceptions for this. =C2=A0The WLAN LED is contro=
lled by
>>> the WLAN card, which is controlled by the OS WLAN card driver.
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback, I always thought thinkpad_acpi driver was
>> managing all Thinkpad leds ;-)
>>
>> Since then, I found that in
>> linux-source-2.6.31/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/led.c, some cards
>> are already recognized and known how they handle the wifi led :=C2=A0I'l=
l
>> have to look with upstream ath5k devs how to update it for my Atheros
>> card model.
>>
>> Le Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:10:08 +0800,
>> jidanni@jidanni.org a =C3=A9crit :
>>
>>> So indeed, all along one is getting oneself radiated, and wasting
>>> electricity... and we thought the light would tell us.
>> Not for me, I=C2=A0already remove the wifi driver when not using it, at
>> least to avoid energy loss !
>>
>>> I think this is how one turns the antenna off
>>> # echo 1 >| /sys/devices/*/*/*/rf_kill
>>
>> I would say the contrary : echo -n '0' > /sys/... rf_kill/state to turn
>> the wifi off, isn't it ?
>>
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Fred.
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>
>
>
> --
> JaY
>



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