Enabling a wifi LED

Partha Bagchi partha1b at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 22:56:29 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Anne Wilson
<cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One it is said that the wifi LED
> can be activated by adding these two lines to /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> dev.wifi0.ledpin = 3
> dev.wifi0.softled = 1
>
> and it goes on to say that this works with both F9 and F10.  However, it's not
> clear whether it only works with the madwifi driver.  I'm guessing that they
> have to be changed to
>
> dev.wlan0.ledpin = 3
> dev.wlan0.softled = 1
>
> However, I need to be sure that I'm not going to do any harm by trying this.
>
> Anne
>
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I have a Sony VGN-FW139E laptop with an Atheros Ar9281 chip using the
ath9k module in F10. For some weird reason, the WiFi led lights have
come "alive" in the last update.

Partha




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