Precision M6300 stupid question about the wifi LED

[Andrea Venturi]

Ahnjoan Amous wrote:
> There is a small LED with a wifi symbol above the keyboard. (to the
> left of the power button)  At post the LED displays for a short time
> (green).  Under RHEL5 it never lights up.  Is there something within
> the BIOS that I should be setting differently for running under linux
> to get this to display when the wifi card is in use?

hi

i have the very same "problem" on a Dell Precision M70

there's a intel 2200 card, but the led is always off. in windows it
turns on if i activate the FN-F2 key combination)

i tried also with a kernel module parameter (led=1) see below

=======================
#modinfo ipw2200
...
parm:           disable:manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio
on]) (int)
parm:           associate:auto associate when scanning (default on) (int)
parm:           auto_create:auto create adhoc network (default on) (int)
parm:           led:enable led control on some systems (default 0 off)
 (int)
parm:           debug:debug output mask (int)
parm:           channel:channel to limit associate to (default 0 [ANY])
(int)
parm:           rtap_iface:create the rtap interface (1 - create,
default 0) (int)
parm:           qos_enable:enable all QoS functionalitis (int)
parm:           qos_burst_enable:enable QoS burst mode (int)
parm:           qos_no_ack_mask:mask Tx_Queue to no ack (int)
parm:           burst_duration_CCK:set CCK burst value (int)
parm:           burst_duration_OFDM:set OFDM burst value (int)
parm:           mode:network mode (0=BSS,1=IBSS,2=Monitor) (int)
parm:           bt_coexist:enable bluetooth coexistence (default off) (int)
parm:           hwcrypto:enable hardware crypto (default off) (int)
parm:           cmdlog:allocate a ring buffer for logging firmware
commands (int)
parm:           roaming:enable roaming support (default on) (int)
parm:           antenna:select antenna 1=Main, 3=Aux, default 0 [both],
2=slow_diversity (choose the one with lower background noise) (int)
...
===============

BUT it doesn't work. maybe it's something magic (i.e. special gpio to be
toggled..)

but i don't worry; as you know too, there's the blue BT led as wi.fi
status helper..

bye

andrea