Greetings,
I swapped out a stock Broadcom wifi card for an Intel 3945 card and now my Wifi indicator light blinks continually. I tried some of the recommendations that I've found (create an /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf file with the line: options iwlwifi led_mode=1
Subsequent rebooting does nothing to eliminate the annoyance.
The reason that I swapped out the Broadcom card is because it would stop functioning after a certain irregular period of time, and "systemctl restart NetworkManager" would not restart it (resorting to plugging in the ethernet cable, or rebooting).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (either how to keep the Broadcom card from dying, or getting rid of the Intel card causing the wifi light to blink).
Thank you.
Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com
On 07/27/2015 01:32 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (either how to keep the Broadcom card from dying, or getting rid of the Intel card causing the wifi light to blink).
One thing you didn't mention: aside from the blinking lights, does the card work properly?
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/27/2015 01:32 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (either how to keep the Broadcom card from dying, or getting rid of the Intel card causing the wifi light to blink).
One thing you didn't mention: aside from the blinking lights, does the card work properly?
The Intel card seems to work correctly. I haven't done any diagnostics; but after installing, I did a yum update (on F21), and things worked as they should.
Also, I'm ssh'ing remotely to a box, and everything seems to be in order.
Thanks.
M
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:55:59PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
One thing you didn't mention: aside from the blinking lights, does the card work properly?
The Intel card seems to work correctly. I haven't done any diagnostics; but after installing, I did a yum update (on F21), and things worked as they should.
Have you tried a piece of black tape? :)
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:55:59PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
One thing you didn't mention: aside from the blinking lights, does the card work properly?
The Intel card seems to work correctly. I haven't done any diagnostics; but after installing, I did a yum update (on F21), and things worked as they should.
Have you tried a piece of black tape? :)
I was stuck trying to decide whether to use duct, masking, electrical, or teflon tape.
The following two resources helped: http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linu...
and
https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi
The file that I created was: /etc/modprobe.d/wlan.conf
It contains the following line: options iwlegacy led_mode=1
Reasoning: the Intel WiFi card is a 3945. Based on that, it uses the iwlegacy driver.
That got me home.
fyi,
Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:13:58AM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
Have you tried a piece of black tape? :)
I was stuck trying to decide whether to use duct, masking, electrical, or teflon tape.
When in doubt, try gaffer tape. All those others leave a sticky residue. :)
The following two resources helped: http://www.tomdesair.com/blog/2012/04/stop-the-blinking-wireless-led-in-linu...
[...]
Reasoning: the Intel WiFi card is a 3945. Based on that, it uses the iwlegacy driver. That got me home.
Ah, nice. In reading this thread, I was remembering that my laptop (Thinkpad X230) used to have a very blinky light, but now (kernel 4.1.2-200) it is steady on -- even though led_mode is 0. For whatever that's worth.
On 07/27/2015 01:55 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Joe Zeff wrote:
One thing you didn't mention: aside from the blinking lights, does the card work properly?
The Intel card seems to work correctly. I haven't done any diagnostics; but after installing, I did a yum update (on F21), and things worked as they should.
Good. I asked because the lights may have been a symptom of a bad card and I wanted to eliminate hardware issues.
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