[SOLVED] Re: Blinking wifi light - Intel Pro Dell Wireless WIFI 3945 card in Dell D630 Laptop

[Max Pyziur]

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-linux/

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 at brama.com