Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparent Network Usage...

[- Swerdfiger]

I hope this is the appropriate place to send this. I have a small old netbook I wanted to breath life into. I'm not sure what specifically is needed. It's an Acer Aspire with an Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB ram, 8 GB ssd (yes only 8). I originally had a Fedora xfce spin on it and decided to take a chance on Lubuntu for a change. I decided to opt for the Lubuntu LTS 14.0.4.1 version. I'm not completely new to linux as I said, but never used Ubuntu/Lubuntu or any debian-based Linux before. I doubt that's relevant. The issue is, unlike when I had Fedora, as easy and wonderful and beautiful as the new Lubuntu is, my Wifi light is going constantly. I turned off updates entirely because I thought it was wasting bandwidth and my precious small SSD space. That did nothing, so I tried sudo iftop -i wlan0 and saw essentially nothing going on...(occasional DNS entry comes up but thats it)...iftop seems a bit more descriptive than I'm interested in, but from what I can tell, it's showing that there's nothing going on, yet the light continues to blink. I don't want to permanently turn off the wifi light - I just need it to only blink to tell me if there's something happening - if it's downloading or not. I've done a google search, and all I can find is Stop the blinking wireless LED in Linux but I don't want to disable it entirely and it appears that's what this does. I'd just like it to only blink when necessary. Thank you in advance.

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