Concerning wireless light on my laptop

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 19:08 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> 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 ;)
> 
But it is funny that they incorporated it in to the Windows driver, but
maybe that is because there are more Windows machines.
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