On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Øyvind Stegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ti., 07.10.2008 kl. 14.24 +0000, skrev Diggs808: >> Is there a reason why the wireless LED blinks on traffic? Personally, >> it drives me nuts since my LED is right below my screen. Any way to >> give users an option to either have it say on steady or blink on traffic? > <snip> > > Well, blinking on traffic is pretty much standard behaviour for wireless > LEDs and network activity indicators in general, no ? Anyway, the rate > of blinking is not very high, at least on my hardware. I remember when I > used the older ipw3945-driver, the blinking-rate was totally > out-of-whack sometimes, so it's an improvement. I have the light below > my screen, but it's almost next to the HD-led anyway, so it's just > another bulb added to the X-mas-light party and my mind easily ignores > it. > > As for disabling the led blinking, I see no options for that in the > iwl3945 module, nor any of the modules it directly depends on. >
For the record the LED on my Toshiba Satellite A100 doesn't blink, yet uses the iwl/ipw3945 drivers. I guess it's a hardware thing. PS. Thanks for the apparent fix on this bug... I'm waiting until the issues with the package get resolved and then I'll be testing it :) Matthew. -- linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-21-generic causes kernel panic when unloading Intel Wireless driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
