I have a Dell XPS m1530 that I was running 10.3 on, but yesterday I formatted and installed 11.1 64 bit and everything is working great. There is one minor annoyance, the blue wifi light that dell put between my keyboard and monitor flashes whenever the wireless is in use. I have an Intel 4965AGN card and in 10.3 using the iwlwifi driver the light was off all the time (matter of fact I forgot that I had a light there…). I was wondering if there is any way to turn off this light in 11.1 or at the very least keep it from blinking all the time (short of opening up the computer and removing the led…).
nobled wrote:
> I have a Dell XPS m1530 that I was running 10.3 on, but yesterday I
> formatted and installed 11.1 64 bit and everything is working great.
> There is one minor annoyance, the blue wifi light that dell put between
> my keyboard and monitor flashes whenever the wireless is in use. I have
> an Intel 4965AGN card and in 10.3 using the iwlwifi driver the light was
> off all the time (matter of fact I forgot that I had a light there…).
> I was wondering if there is any way to turn off this light in 11.1 or at
> the very least keep it from blinking all the time (short of opening up
> the computer and removing the led…).
Try ‘sudo modprobe -rv rfkill_input’. If that works then add
rfkill_input to the blacklist. Note - without this module, your
wireless may not work at all. The code to manipulate the LED was
instituted to warn people that their wireless switch is off.
I got it to stop flashing, but now it’s always on. This is probably good enough because it’s not as much of a distraction if it’s not flashing. I ran the following as root:
nobled wrote:
> I got it to stop flashing, but now it’s always on. This is probably
> good enough because it’s not as much of a distraction if it’s not
> flashing. I ran the following as root:
>
> echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:radio/brightness
I had the same problem on my HP 8710w after updating to opensuse 11.3 (with kernel 2.6.34). I found, however, which module causes the blinking ( iwlcore ). Then I checked what parameters has the module:
Finally, it was easy to add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf:
options iwlcore led_mode=1
IMHO, this is the best solution, because I don’t have /sys/class/leds/something and one does not need to create some special scripts.
I hope this helps anyone having this annoying problem. I also think, that the opensuse guys should remove the blinking from the default setup, as it can nearly drive you crazy.
