Re: using leds on laptop
On 2/1/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and charging lights) ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 bge0: Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev. 0xc002 mem 0xf460-0xf460 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci7 I have working led (at least it works for me) with NDISulator code from: http://www.gitorious.org/ndisulator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:22:22 +0200, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? But like with most modern inventions (such as jacks for phones and speakers that are controlled by a driver, or other nonsense), this issue will be so specific that there's only a very specific driver for an arbitrary version of Windows that utilizes hidden code inside the laptop's secret circuits to switch the LED on. :-) Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of the WLAN? Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to you if you put enough money onto the table. :-) Otherwise, it's completely useless. By the way, I have an older Toshiba laptop with a mechanical switch for the WLAN component. It activates a LED regardless of any OS-internal setting, maybe it's just switching the WLAN component's power off an on, along with the LED. But that's not modern - today's devices need a driver for that. :-) As I said: Useless stuff. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of the WLAN? I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does the physical switch change anything Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to you if you put enough money onto the table. :-) It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Otherwise, it's completely useless. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of the WLAN? I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does the physical switch change anything Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to you if you put enough money onto the table. :-) It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Otherwise, it's completely useless. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If it's and Intel card (iwi(4), ipw(4), iwn(4)), it's a matter of knowing what command to send to the firmware. What device do you have in the laptop? Check the dmesg(8) output... -Brandon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and charging lights) ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 bge0: Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev. 0xc002 mem 0xf460-0xf460 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci7 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of the WLAN? I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does the physical switch change anything Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to you if you put enough money onto the table. :-) It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Otherwise, it's completely useless. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If it's and Intel card (iwi(4), ipw(4), iwn(4)), it's a matter of knowing what command to send to the firmware. What device do you have in the laptop? Check the dmesg(8) output... -Brandon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Which Lenovo laptop model is it? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpvvD4VDOa8l.pgp Description: PGP signature
