On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 10:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 15:40 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>
> > > This one came to me as a surprise, I updated the kernel, and whoops, the
> > > wireless led, blinks all the time!
> > > It turns out that in splitted driver iwl3945 doesn't have any led
> > > support, and indeed the light on my notebook doesn't change state often.
> > > It ether doesn't light up at all, or just blinks at constant rate.
> > OK, found the cause, it is dead simple, and in fact affects all intel
> > wireless card.
> > I wonder how such bug could escape unnoticed.
> > Nobody uses linux these days I guess.... :-(
>
> Wow, so you're one of the people who think the LED blinking is the most
> important thing... good job...
Good job to you for insulting peoples.
>
> Anyhow this was intentional, it's supposed to blink in that mode
> according to the product documentation. If you don't like it, you can
> now override it in sysfs.
>
> johannes
>
You mean, led is supposed to constantly blink while there is no traffic?
You are kidding aren't you?
At least led doesn't behave like that on any other wireless card, nor it
does in windows
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