Precision M6300 stupid question about the wifi LED

[Ahnjoan Amous]

I'm guessing someone with a 6300N rather than a M6300 will eventually
open a ticket and get it fixed.  I would call in to open a ticket but
my laptop was purchased by work with Vista installed.

Thanks
Ahnjoan

On Feb 6, 2008 11:54 AM, Andrea Venturi <a.venturi at cineca.it> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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