Concerning wireless light on my laptop
Christoph Höger
choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Mon Nov 12 18:08:26 UTC 2007
Tim schrieb:
> Tim:
>>> But mine doesn't actually use them for activity status. They don't
>>> change when using wireless (i.e. there's no blinking during reception
>>> not transmission), and they don't change for network availability (it's
>>> lit if you've enabled your wireless hardware, whether or not their is
>>> another wireless device to connect to).
>
> Christoph Höger:
>> what hardware (and what driver) do you use? I saw this with iwl3945.
>> That is not very surprising as iwl3945 is still beta software.
>
> [tim at suspishus ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep ireless
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
>
> It uses whatever driver it finds automatically, as came with the
> original installation. I've not added anything, it worked out of the
> box, so to speak.
>
> At least the networking works, even if the LED doesn't work
> properly. ;-)
>
Well, then you have to wait for the intel developers to integrate the
led into their driver. I doubt that this is a very high priority target ;)
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