On Wednesday 14 January 2009 16:32:53 Scott Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:03:19PM +0000, Anne Wilson 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 > > That was for the 2.6.26.x kernel. It no longer works with 2.6.27 kernel. > > >and it goes on to say that this works with both F9 and F10. > > If you're using the ath5k driver included with the kernel, you won't be > able to get those values in the 2.6.27 kernel. Whether MadWifi's > drivers add the sysctl variables, I'm not sure, I would have to check. > > You'll get an error that there's no such sysctl option. It seems to not > be in the 2.6.27 vanilla kernel either. > OK, thanks. > On the other hand, we got ath5k in that kernel, so it was a more than > even tradeoff IMHO > > In Ubuntu's 2.6.28 kernel, it seems to be back. A quick try on Fedora's > rawhide, however, indicates that Fedora doesn't have it. > > However, Ubuntu pulled ath5k support out of their > kernels--I'd much rather they had left that in, though it's easy enough > to fix with backports. If I have to choose one or the other, I'd rather > have the module right there. > > Although some people mentioned that they got better results with MadWifi > than the ath5k module, I haven't found that to be the case. > That may be hardware dependent, of course. I do have one, fairly serious issue, but at this stage I'm suspecting that it's hardware, not driver. I'll do a bug report if it warrants it, but right now I'm still collecting information/evidence. > FWIW, getting that working just gives an annoying amber flashing during > wireless activity. I quickly turned it off, though of course, some > people like flashing lights. :) > I don't like flashing lights, but I do like to know that wifi is activated - there's that toggle switch that gives you no other indication of its status. > > However, it's not > > clear whether it only works with the madwifi driver. > > As mentioned above, that I don't know--I would have to test that and > see, but I do know that if you use the ath5k driver, the sysctl values > aren't there. > > > However, I need to be sure that I'm not going to do any harm by trying > > this. > > I'm not sure what happens if an unknown variable is in sysctl.conf. I > usually did it on the fly with > > sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3 > sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1 > Thanks, everyone for the answers. Not what I wanted to hear, but I'd rather have it 'from the horse's mouth' :-) Anne
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