Enabling a wifi LED

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 22:56:29 Partha Bagchi wrote:
> 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.
>
I used to bemoan the fact that the wifi indicator on this laptop (Intel 2200) 
didn't work.  One day I realised it was working.  Nice surprise! :-)

Anne
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