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gechu

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Registered: 2010-05-27

Posts: 8

Flashing wifi LED when active

I´ve got a intel 5300 AGN. I got it set up with the needed firmware (found in the wiki), and gnome wireless applet. I have no problems detecting and connecting to wireless networks, but when there is activity the LED is flashing/blinking to indicate activity. How do I get rid of this behavior?

Thanks,
Erik

Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Flashing wifi LED when active

I´ve got a intel 5300 AGN. I got it set up with the needed firmware (found in the wiki), and gnome wireless applet. I have no problems detecting and connecting to wireless networks, but when there is activity the LED is flashing/blinking to indicate activity. How do I get rid of this behavior?

Thanks,
Erik

You can disable the support in the kernel AFAIK:

CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y
CONFIG_RFKILL_LEDS=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK_XPAD_LEDS=y
# CONFIG_USB_LED is not set
# CONFIG_USB_APPLEDISPLAY is not set
CONFIG_NEW_LEDS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS=y
# LED drivers
# CONFIG_LEDS_ALIX2 is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_PCA9532 is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_LP3944 is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_CLEVO_MAIL is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_PCA955X is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_BD2802 is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_INTEL_SS4200 is not set
# CONFIG_LEDS_DELL_NETBOOKS is not set
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS=y
# LED Triggers
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_TIMER=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_HEARTBEAT=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_BACKLIGHT=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_DEFAULT_ON=y
# iptables trigger is under Netfilter config (LED target)
# CONFIG_ASUS_OLED is not set

There is also:

[fackamato@fackamato-pc linux-firmware-git]$ cat /sys/module/iwlcore/parameters/led_mode
0

, but I don't know what it does.

gechu

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Registered: 2010-05-27

Posts: 8

Re: Flashing wifi LED when active

Hi Fackamato and thanks for you reply. At the moment Im back at Windows. But I´ll keep you suggestions in mind when I get the energy to try arch linux again

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: Flashing wifi LED when active

And for it stays always on pass led_mode=1 as a option to iwlcore.

$ modinfo iwlcore|grep led
parm:           led_mode:led mode: 0=blinking, 1=On(RF On)/Off(RF Off), (default 0)