<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_2355">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 <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5528" href="http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/">Stop the blinking wireless LED in Linux</a> 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.<br></div><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff;" id="enhancrCard_0" class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element" contenteditable="false"><table id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5552" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width:450px; height:170px; position: relative; display: block;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5551"><tr class="link-enhancr-element"><td class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="8" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px;"> </div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5574" class="link-enhancr-element"><td rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt;"> </div></td><td class="link-enhancr-element" rowspan="5" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 168px; height: 168px; background-color: #000000;border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 168px;" align="center"><a href="http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/" class="link-enhancr-card-urlWrapper link-enhancr-element" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: #000000 !important;"><img data-id="65441dbe-24be-e38d-fee0-7f5c66c3cb37" alt="image" src="https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg" class="link-enhancr-thumbnail-image link-enhancr-element" style="display: block; margin: auto;" height="168" width="168"></a></div></td><td rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt;"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14pt;"> </div></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5573" colspan="2" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 6px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5572" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 6px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 6pt;"> </div></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5670" rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 20px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 20px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 20pt;"> </div></td><td class="link-enhancr-element" rowspan="5" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;" width="1"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt;"> </div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5550"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5549" class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="2" style="width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5571" class="link-enhancr-text-part link-enhancr-element" style="line-height:16.5px; background-color: #ffffff; height: 135px; width: 245px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5570" class="link-enhancr-element" style="word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;"><span class="link-enhancr-element icon icon-shrink link-enhancr-toggle"></span><span class="link-enhancr-element icon icon-close link-enhancr-delete"></span><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5569" href="http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/" class="link-enhancr-card-urlWrapper link-enhancr-element" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: #000000 !important; line-height: 100%; font-size: 18px; display: block;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5568" class="link-enhancr-element link-enhancr-card-title" style="margin: 0; font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px; max-height: 43px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden !important; display: inline-block;">Stop the blinking wireless LED in Linux</span></a><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424298542099_5589" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; color: #999999; max-height: 81px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';overflow: hidden;" class="link-enhancr-card-description link-enhancr-element">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. 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