On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:58 -0800, Ondřej Kučera wrote: > Hi, > > Marcos Barbosa wrote: > > Traffic exists all the time, because the commands to control > > connection. To cancel all traffic, down the wireless interface. > > OK, let me rephrase. It may by true that from a low-level point of view > there exists some traffic all the time. But let's see it from user's > point of view. With 2.6.26 I connected to network during which the led > was blinking. After the connection was established, it stopped blinking > and was just on. Then when I started downloading something (wget > http://server.com/foo.bar), it started blinking and shortly after the > download was completed, it stopped to be just "on" again. I consider > this a very reasonable behavior. With 2.6.27 it is blinking really all > the time, whether the user is consciously downloading/uploading some > data or not. The main problem is that such periodic non-stop blinking is > very eye catching and it draws your attention away from the things you > are actually doing. So I really believe this is a regression. One more > reason, even though I'm not sure if I should even bring it up - on MS > Windows it behaves more or less in a similar manner as with 2.6.26 > kernel. Now I'm far from saying that things should work the way they > work on Windows but in this case I think they actually have it right. Could you please add your feedback to http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1771 ? Thanks Reinette -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
