Jay Mistry wrote:

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Per Jessen wrote:

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... does anyone know how to turn on the "wireless active" indicator on an IBM/Leonov Thinkpad?  (when the interface is active of course).

/Per

-- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.1°C)

On the ThinkPad R61, there is a button on the extreme left of the armrest panel facing towards you-this toggles wireless radio on/off. Perhaps this is what you were looking for? YMMV, but look for a similar button in your model of TP.

I've got a couple of R51e models, and I don't see any such button. I think the switch on/off wifi is done with the blue Fn+<otherkey>. Besides, the wifi is working fine, it's only the indicator that isn't on. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 3/5/09, Per Jessen wrote:

Jay Mistry wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Per Jessen wrote:

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... does anyone know how to turn on the "wireless active" indicator on an IBM/Leonov Thinkpad? (when the interface is active of course).

/Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.1°C)

On the ThinkPad R61, there is a button on the extreme left of the armrest panel facing towards you-this toggles wireless radio on/off. Perhaps this is what you were looking for? YMMV, but look for a similar button in your model of TP.

I've got a couple of R51e models, and I don't see any such button. I think the switch on/off wifi is done with the blue Fn+<otherkey>. Besides, the wifi is working fine, it's only the indicator that isn't on.

Blue on/off Fn Key + also, (on R61, not sure about R51) there is a Radio Button to toggle Wireless on/off (see first image under "Input/Output Ports" at http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3814). Are you able to connect through the wirless card?, else it may only be a LED problem. In addition, Wireless Card is controlled by BIOS, which one can access through ThinkVantage at boot. Try checking/changing the BIOS setting as well. This is for the R61 TP, as I said earlier your settings may be different. If you have the ThinkVantage Manual installed, it may help in troubleshooting the wireless card problem. Jay -- Registered Linux User # 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (openSUSE 11.1, i686) Smolts Profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_b541a450-9bc1-45fd-beab-d46ee43a... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Per Jessen escribió:

Yeah, the wifi is fine, it's only the LED indicator.

If it does not work --> bugzilla --> kernel bug. -- "If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed" -George Carlin (1937-2008) Cristian Rodríguez R. Software Developer Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:02:44 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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Per Jessen escribió:

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Yeah, the wifi is fine, it's only the LED indicator.

If it does not work --> bugzilla --> kernel bug.

If it does not work with 11.1 or factory, we're not going to fix such things for in old code bases anymore,

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482432 /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org