tleighton999
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Notebook LED control
Hi,
I am running Ubuntu Linux (5.0 - Breezy Badger), and have just set up (with a LOT of fiddling) my Intel IPW2200BG minipci card. I would like to control the led's inside my wireless button to allow me to see if i am connected to a network or not. How would i do this? I have heard from friends that i need to use a utility in /proc but i cannot find / use any.
Listing of /proc
tom@laptop:~# ls /proc
1 5906 7567 7972 8120 8183 buddyinfo interrupts mtrr
105 5965 7584 7973 8122 8195 bus iomem net
131 7 7611 7974 8124 8852 cmdline ioports partitions
132 730 7629 8025 8126 8915 cpuinfo irq self
133 7401 7725 8063 8128 8933 crypto kallsyms slabinfo
134 7416 7830 8066 8134 8937 devices kcore stat
1982 7433 7869 8067 8139 8940 diskstats kmsg swaps
2 7435 7875 8069 8142 8991 dma loadavg sys
3 7448 7885 8072 8159 8994 driver locks sysrq-trigger
3194 7461 7919 8074 8167 8995 execdomains mdstat sysvipc
3332 7466 7932 8078 8175 9061 fb meminfo tty
4 7476 7969 8080 8177 acpi filesystems misc uptime
5 7515 7970 8083 8179 asound fs modules version
5238 7520 7971 8118 8181 bluetooth ide mounts vmstat
Thanks
Tom
P.S. The button works great for turning the wireless on / off, i just need more information about whether the cards antenna is on or off via the led.
I am using WPA_Supplicant, and the built-in ubuntu IPW2200BG card drivers.
I am running Ubuntu Linux (5.0 - Breezy Badger), and have just set up (with a LOT of fiddling) my Intel IPW2200BG minipci card. I would like to control the led's inside my wireless button to allow me to see if i am connected to a network or not. How would i do this? I have heard from friends that i need to use a utility in /proc but i cannot find / use any.
Listing of /proc
tom@laptop:~# ls /proc
1 5906 7567 7972 8120 8183 buddyinfo interrupts mtrr
105 5965 7584 7973 8122 8195 bus iomem net
131 7 7611 7974 8124 8852 cmdline ioports partitions
132 730 7629 8025 8126 8915 cpuinfo irq self
133 7401 7725 8063 8128 8933 crypto kallsyms slabinfo
134 7416 7830 8066 8134 8937 devices kcore stat
1982 7433 7869 8067 8139 8940 diskstats kmsg swaps
2 7435 7875 8069 8142 8991 dma loadavg sys
3 7448 7885 8072 8159 8994 driver locks sysrq-trigger
3194 7461 7919 8074 8167 8995 execdomains mdstat sysvipc
3332 7466 7932 8078 8175 9061 fb meminfo tty
4 7476 7969 8080 8177 acpi filesystems misc uptime
5 7515 7970 8083 8179 asound fs modules version
5238 7520 7971 8118 8181 bluetooth ide mounts vmstat
Thanks
Tom
P.S. The button works great for turning the wireless on / off, i just need more information about whether the cards antenna is on or off via the led.
I am using WPA_Supplicant, and the built-in ubuntu IPW2200BG card drivers.
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depends on your notebook model. for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for example there's a module ibm-acpi, which lets you control nearly all LEDs....
ASKER
Any ideas for an Acer notebook?
ASKER
Cheers XOF, worked perfectly, how would i load this at boot with the led=1 option?
Thanks
Tom
Thanks
Tom
well, I don't know the ubuntu distro. Normally you would place a line like
options ipw2200 led=1
into /etc/modules.conf
options ipw2200 led=1
into /etc/modules.conf
ASKER
Ubuntu is Debian based, so i assume it should work - i will try it in a bit!
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