On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse<[email protected]> wrote:
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello
I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a
combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off
but
the light stays red.
The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless
on. I found some sysctls that control it:
dev.ath.0.softled: 0
dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3
dev.ath.0.ledon: 1
dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700
softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot.
I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on
softled 0->1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again.
Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led
change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the
wireless is on or off?
With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a
short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the
light flashes in it's "opposite" colour when there is network traffic. So
it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon.
The wireless device is
dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424.
I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some
circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much
easier
to test if the light worked.
Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do?
Thanks
Chris
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Hi Chris,
I have an Acer Aspire D150 and the LED hasn't been lit with FreeBSD,
9-rc3,
9-release or 10-current (with BroadCom and 2 Atheros cards). it did work
with Fedora GNU/Linux 11. I did try setting in loader.conf as recommended
to me to no avail. On one hand it was easy to get the attitude "who cares
about the LED anyway" but on the other I'm thinking it's a simple little
thing that's important,I guess like maybe buying a new car and it's
missing
a knob on the stereo. (?) :) I suppose it probably should work.
Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA
I have another HP laptop with a Broadcomm card which has a
button_with_light and it just works. None of the sysctl oids above occur
though. Maybe I'll swap wireless cards between the two and see what happens.
What is the output of sysctl -a |grep led ?
You'll get lots of "enabled's" but there might be something that relates
to led's.
I had to change ledpin from default of 0 to 3 before any of the other ones
had any effect.
Thanks for the reply anyway.
Chris
Oh thats a good idea :) Thanks
here's what someone recommended :
dev.ath.0.ledpin=3
dev.ath.0.softled=1
but here are some extras i found from sysctl -a that i will check out:
dev.ath.0.ledon: 0
dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700
dev.ath.0.hardled: 0
dev.ath.0.led_net_pin: -1
dev.ath.0.led_pwr_pin: -1
Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA
I would give them a try. Set dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 then experiment. If you
can't get any response try different values for ledpin or one of the
other led*pin.
I can't read source code :( but maybe you can get more info out of the
code you posted.
Chris
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