Bug 812460

Summary: WLAN LED extremely distracting/annoying
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ricky Burgin <ricky>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: extras-orphan, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, notting
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Description Ricky Burgin 2012-04-13 19:26:06 UTC
The bundled iwlwifi firmware in Fedora 16, and possibly other versions has the LED option set to ON/OFF for what seems to be RX/TX. I'm unsure how this affects others, but on my laptop, a fairly luminous LED switched from blue to orange in quick succession constantly *all of the time*.

I switched the option to '1', for ON (blue on my laptop) for an enabled adapter and OFF (orange on my laptop) for a disabled adapter.

As a result, my eyes are no longer being attacked with useless information in the form of photonic binary.

I am submitting this report because I believe, if there enough laptops that have LEDs that behave similarly, that this default behaviour sucks and should be defaulted to the one I have already set it to.

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2012-10-23 15:38:03 UTC
# Mass update to all open bugs.

Kernel 3.6.2-1.fc16 has just been pushed to updates.
This update is a significant rebase from the previous version.

Please retest with this kernel, and let us know if your problem has been fixed.

In the event that you have upgraded to a newer release and the bug you reported
is still present, please change the version field to the newest release you have
encountered the issue with.  Before doing so, please ensure you are testing the
latest kernel update in that release and attach any new and relevant information
you may have gathered.

If you are not the original bug reporter and you still experience this bug,
please file a new report, as it is possible that you may be seeing a
different problem. 
(Please don't clone this bug, a fresh bug referencing this bug in the comment is sufficient).

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2012-11-14 16:32:11 UTC
With no response, we are closing this bug under the assumption that it is no longer an issue. If you still experience this bug, please feel free to reopen the bug report.

Comment 3 Ricky Burgin 2012-11-14 19:58:37 UTC
This is still an issue.

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Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-02-14 01:28:31 UTC
Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is 
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