Comment 66 for bug 251252

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Øyvind Stegard <email address hidden> wrote:
> ti., 07.10.2008 kl. 14.24 +0000, skrev Diggs808:
>> Is there a reason why the wireless LED blinks on traffic? Personally,
>> it drives me nuts since my LED is right below my screen. Any way to
>> give users an option to either have it say on steady or blink on traffic?
> <snip>
>
> Well, blinking on traffic is pretty much standard behaviour for wireless
> LEDs and network activity indicators in general, no ? Anyway, the rate
> of blinking is not very high, at least on my hardware. I remember when I
> used the older ipw3945-driver, the blinking-rate was totally
> out-of-whack sometimes, so it's an improvement. I have the light below
> my screen, but it's almost next to the HD-led anyway, so it's just
> another bulb added to the X-mas-light party and my mind easily ignores
> it.
>
> As for disabling the led blinking, I see no options for that in the
> iwl3945 module, nor any of the modules it directly depends on.
>

For the record the LED on my Toshiba Satellite A100 doesn't blink, yet
uses the iwl/ipw3945 drivers. I guess it's a hardware thing.

PS. Thanks for the apparent fix on this bug... I'm waiting until the
issues with the package get resolved and then I'll be testing it :)

Matthew.