No really sure, maybe it is keepalive data...
2015-02-19 11:15 GMT-02:00 Saqman2060 <saqman2...@gmail.com>: > You can to the right place. A constant blinking light usually indicates > network activity. Either it is in transition or stuck in a loop. > > Are you using a PCI wireless network controller or a wi-fi USB adaptor? > > Did you check your router for constant blinking lights? > > If you can disconnect your wi-fi adaptor from the router and see if the > lights on the router still blink. This will narrow the problem to either > the router or the adaptor. > ------------------------------ > From: - Swerdfiger <swerdfige...@yahoo.ca> > Sent: 2/18/2015 6:01 PM > To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Wifi Light Blinks Constantly, even when there's no apparent > NetworkUsage... > > I hope this is the appropriate place to send this. I have a small old > netbook I wanted to breath life into. I'm not sure what specifically is > needed. It's an Acer Aspire with an Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB ram, 8 GB > ssd (yes only 8). I originally had a Fedora xfce spin on it and decided to > take a chance on Lubuntu for a change. I decided to opt for the Lubuntu LTS > 14.0.4.1 version. I'm not completely new to linux as I said, but never used > Ubuntu/Lubuntu or any debian-based Linux before. I doubt that's relevant. > The issue is, unlike when I had Fedora, as easy and wonderful and beautiful > as the new Lubuntu is, my Wifi light is going constantly. I turned off > updates entirely because I thought it was wasting bandwidth and my precious > small SSD space. That did nothing, so I tried sudo iftop -i wlan0 and saw > essentially nothing going on...(occasional DNS entry comes up but thats > it)...iftop seems a bit more descriptive than I'm interested in, but from > what I can tell, it's showing that there's nothing going on, yet the light > continues to blink. I don't want to permanently turn off the wifi light - I > just need it to only blink to tell me if there's something happening - if > it's downloading or not. I've done a google search, and all I can find is Stop > the blinking wireless LED in Linux > <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/> > but I don't want to disable it entirely and it appears that's what this > does. I'd just like it to only blink when necessary. Thank you in advance. > > > [image: image] > <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/> > > > > > > Stop the blinking wireless LED in Linux > <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/> > I've recently had some problems with the wireless LED of my laptop in > Linux. I have a Intel WiFi Link 5100 but this also applies to other Intel > WiFi cards. The LED... > View on www.tomdesair.com > <http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linux/> > Preview by Yahoo > > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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