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  1. Bug #250211
  2. Comment #32

Comment 32 for bug 250211

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Volker Hoffmann (vhoffmann) wrote : Re: Intrepid: WLAN LED blinks incessantly on iwl3945 | iwl4965 laptop

The functionality to use the LED is a brilliant thing; yet I agree that the default usage is not optimal.

Judging from `cat /sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:{RX,TX}/trigger`:

> [none] ide-disk BAT0-charging-or-full BAT0-charging BAT0-full AC-online mmc0 phy0rx phy0tx phy0assoc phy0radio rfkill0,

the LEDs can be used for quite a few things.

I suggest using the "none" behaviour as default (this could easily be set as a releases wide standard) by making use of the interfaces in

/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger

and

/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:TX/trigger

as described in

http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2008052101-iwlwifi-blinking.html

earlier.