Re: [ipw3945-devel] PROBLEM: Led for wifi blinking all the time

["Ondřej Kučera" <ondrej.kucera@centrum.cz>]

Hi,

Marcos Barbosa wrote:
> Traffic exists all the time, because the commands to control
> connection. To cancel all traffic, down the wireless interface.

OK, let me rephrase. It may by true that from a low-level point of view=
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there exists some traffic all the time. But let's see it from user's=20
point of view. With 2.6.26 I connected to network during which the led=20
was blinking. After the connection was established, it stopped blinking=
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and was just on. Then when I started downloading something (wget=20
http://server.com/foo.bar), it started blinking and shortly after the=20
download was completed, it stopped to be just "on" again. I consider=20
this a very reasonable behavior. With 2.6.27 it is blinking really all=20
the time, whether the user is consciously downloading/uploading some=20
data or not. The main problem is that such periodic non-stop blinking i=
s=20
very eye catching and it draws your attention away from the things you=20
are actually doing. So I really believe this is a regression. One more=20
reason, even though I'm not sure if I should even bring it up - on MS=20
Windows it behaves more or less in a similar manner as with 2.6.26=20
kernel. Now I'm far from saying that things should work the way they=20
work on Windows but in this case I think they actually have it right.

Ond=F8ej


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Cheers,
Ond=F8ej Ku=E8era
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