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

[reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:58 -0800, Ond=C5=99ej Ku=C4=8Dera wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Marcos Barbosa wrote:
> > Traffic exists all the time, because the commands to control
> > connection. To cancel all traffic, down the wireless interface.
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> OK, let me rephrase. It may by true that from a low-level point of vi=
ew=20
> 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 le=
d=20
> was blinking. After the connection was established, it stopped blinki=
ng=20
> 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 al=
l=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=
 is=20
> very eye catching and it draws your attention away from the things yo=
u=20
> are actually doing. So I really believe this is a regression. One mor=
e=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.

Could you please add your feedback to
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1771 ?

Thanks

Reinette

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