Wireless LED doesn't work (by default) in "Dapper" on HP NC6000 using ipw2200 driver

[Christopher Meyer]

On 6/5/06, Matt Patterson <matt at v8zman.com> wrote:
>
> I fiddled with this a few weeks ago. I have seen several people post about
> this problem. I think it is primarily that the led feature is not really
> functional. It has nothing to do with anything but whether or not you have
> turned on the led. If you turn off the card, the light stays on, etc. I
> wrote a very ghetto script that actually read the state from the card and
> attempted to set the led state by either removing the module (only way to
> turn off led) or setting the led. The script works, but is real ghetto and
> has a lot of missing cases because its all shell scripting (which I suck
> at). If you like I will send it your way. I don't have it at my current
> computer, so drop me an email (direct) if you want it.
>
> Matt
>

Hey Matt,

Thanks for your reply. I fiddled a bit with this myself and noticed what
you'd mentioned.
I shut down the interface via `ifconfig eth1 down' and lost connectivity to
my WLAN yet the LED was still lit.
Even deactivating the interface via "System -> Network" doesn't do anything
to the state of the LED.
Seems this isn't very functional, allthough it doesn't bother me too much.
Thanks for the tips.

Chris



On 6/5/06, Christopher Meyer <kungfoosion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> I've just setup dual-boot between Dapper and XP, installing Dapper from
> the "Deskop" CD on my HP NC6000 laptop.
> I have to say I was extremely impressed with the installation, having
> everything work out of the box, including
> wireless, using the ipw2200 driver. The only thing missing was the LED
> light for my wireless card not lighting up
> when  I activated the wireless interface. After searching a few forums
> someone suggested adding the option:
>
> options ipw2200 led = 1
>
> to "/etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200" .
>
> This file doesn't exist on my system, however I did make the necessary
> entry in "/etc/modprobe.d/options"
> and after a reboot, the wireless LED lit up as soon as the interface came
> up. This makes me happy :) .
> Question is, do I accept this to be a "cosmetic" bug which I can live
> with, or should I file it as a bug on Launchpad?
> I haven't seen this logged as an issue on Launchpad by anyone else yet.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Christopher
>
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