[Bug 462967] New: laptop wireless light blinks all the time.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462967 Summary: laptop wireless light blinks all the time. Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bob_l_lewis@yahoo.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer I have an HP laptop Model: Pavilion dv5237cl using PROWireless 3945ABG Two minor networking problems have surfaced with 11.1 1) The blue light indicating the wireless network is active blinks all the time. Sometimes it stops for 2-seconds. The blinking is hard on the eyes. The wireless network does function. It is dual booted and does not happen with (YUCK) XP. 2) The signal strength bars only have two bars out of the four even when I am right next to the wireless router. It doesn't seem to be an accurate indicator. XP does show the signal as high. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Robert Lewis
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Jonathon Robison
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Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Tambet Ingo
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Helmut Schaa
I'm thinking I would have preferred no light to this constant "blinky-blinky-blinky" eye-sore.
The LED blinks when traffic goes through the wireless card. However you can configure the LED behavior in /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds. For example something like echo none > /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds/*TX/trigger echo none > /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds/*RX/trigger echo none > /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds/*assoc/trigger should deactivate the blinking while traffic is received or transmitted. Just play with the LED triggers to get the desired behavior. So, the LED part is no bug. (In reply to comment #1)
In addition, if I am using Network Manager I have found two ways to get the wireless back working. One is to boot into Microsoft and press the button. The other way is to go into the BIOS settings and turn off the wireless card and then turn it back on saving the settings. Again this is with an iwl3945 chipset.
This behavior is already fixed in the current kernel git and should appear soon as update for 11.1. Hence, I'd suggest to close this report as INVALID and open a new one for the last remaining issue: only two signal strength bars are shown ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Helmut Schaa
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--- Comment #9 from Helmut Schaa
I will be opening up a new b/r to indicate that an USER interface to control this needs to be designed. I guess that would be an enhancement/feature request.
Right. But please file the feature request at features.opensuse.org instead of bugzilla. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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