Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparentNetworkUsage." Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 13

Thu Feb 26 14:19:38 UTC 2015

I sincerely doubt it, as this issue wasn't present the day before when I had Fedora on there.

      From: Saqman2060 <saqman2060 at gmail.com>
 To: - Swerdfiger <swerdfiger89 at yahoo.ca>; "lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
 Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:34 PM
 Subject: RE: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparentNetworkUsage." Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 13

It could be a loop or the hardware itself. You said your machine was old. Perhaps it is failing.

From: - Swerdfiger
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Subject: "RE: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparentNetworkUsage." Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 13

Thank you. And okay, then I believe it must be stuck in a loop... The reason I was convinced it wasn't actually using bandwidth is because after I did the iftop and saw nothing, I checked my router and modem and it appears that it's not actually using internet... Those lights, especially on the modem, stay solid. The router always blinks a bit, but blinks wildly when bandwidth is being consumed - and it wasn't doing that. This is a built-in wifi card in the old netbook. It's old enough to have come with a modified linux version from acer. So I assume built-in means pci and it's definitely not a USB adapter. Also the WiFi lights do turn off when I disable the networking, if that helps. Additionally, I'm using Google's Public DNS servers - if that could have any impact. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 ... But I was using them before I installed Lubuntu also. These things lead me to believe it's some sort of driver issue or something specific to the Lubuntu defaults. Thanks.

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Today's Topics:

  1. RE: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no
      apparent NetworkUsage... (Saqman2060)
  2. Re: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no
      apparent NetworkUsage... (Andre Rodovalho)

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You can to the right place. A constant blinking light usually indicates network activity. Either it is in transition or stuck in a loop.

Are you using a PCI wireless network controller or a wi-fi USB adaptor?

Did you check your router for constant blinking lights? 

If you can disconnect your wi-fi adaptor from the router and see if the lights on the router still blink. This will narrow the problem to either the router or the adaptor. 

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From: "- Swerdfiger" <swerdfiger89 at yahoo.ca>
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Subject: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparent NetworkUsage...

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.

Stop the blinking wireless LED in LinuxI've recently had some problems with the wireless LED of my laptop in Linux. I have a Intel WiFi Link 5100 but this also applies to other Intel WiFi cards.  The LED...

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:23:28 -0200
From: Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>
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No really sure, maybe it is keepalive data...

2015-02-19 11:15 GMT-02:00 Saqman2060 <saqman2060 at gmail.com>:

> You can to the right place. A constant blinking light usually indicates
> network activity. Either it is in transition or stuck in a loop.
>
> Are you using a PCI wireless network controller or a wi-fi USB adaptor?
>
> Did you check your router for constant blinking lights?
>
> If you can disconnect your wi-fi adaptor from the router and see if the
> lights on the router still blink. This will narrow the problem to either
> the router or the adaptor.
> ------------------------------
> From: - Swerdfiger <swerdfiger89 at yahoo.ca>
> Sent: ?2/?18/?2015 6:01 PM
> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparent
> NetworkUsage...
>
> 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
> <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/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.
>
>
> [image: image]
> <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/>
>
>
>
>
>
> Stop the blinking wireless LED in Linux
> <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/>
> I've recently had some problems with the wireless LED of my laptop in
> Linux. I have a Intel WiFi Link 5100 but this also applies to other Intel
> WiFi cards.  The LED...
> View on www.tomdesair.com
> <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/>
> Preview by Yahoo
>
>
>
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