Hello
I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a
combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off
but the light stays red.
The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless
on. I found some sysctls that control it:
dev.ath.0.softled: 0
dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3
dev.ath.0.ledon: 1
dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700
softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot.
I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on
softled 0->1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again.
Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led
change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the
wireless is on or off?
With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a
short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1
the light flashes in it's "opposite" colour when there is network
traffic. So it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle
ledon.
The wireless device is
dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424.
I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some
circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much
easier to test if the light worked.
Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do?
Thanks
Chris
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