Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:14 -0800 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ath and how to control wireless light Message-ID: <CAFuo_fwLHio%2B-is4iv33GRzWVf-j5ydc1%2BAYoaWvS-VrEM8eEw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2F1309.6090106@onetel.com> References: <4F2AA33E.6010207@onetel.com> <CAFuo_fyT5cjn_x_FcVANj_-A=sd3UEDuNtAy1LjkE9cL-0AKew@mail.gmail.com> <4F2D1BE0.7050901@onetel.com> <CAFuo_fxYGgCvd3DNvYLhM-qsKZpDXMerNOQgQ9=zoXtsxV3FmQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F2F1309.6090106@onetel.com>
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On Feb 5, 2012 3:38 PM, "Chris Whitehouse" <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > > On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse<cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: >> >>> On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse<cwhiteh@onetel.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a >>>>> combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off >>>>> but >>>>> the light stays red. >>>>> >>>>> The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless >>>>> on. I found some sysctls that control it: >>>>> dev.ath.0.softled: 0 >>>>> dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 >>>>> dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 >>>>> dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 >>>>> >>>>> softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot. >>>>> I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on >>>>> softled 0->1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again. >>>>> >>>>> Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led >>>>> change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the >>>>> wireless is on or off? >>>>> >>>>> With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a >>>>> short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the >>>>> light flashes in it's "opposite" colour when there is network traffic. So >>>>> it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon. >>>>> >>>>> The wireless device is >>>>> dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424. >>>>> >>>>> I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some >>>>> circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much >>>>> easier >>>>> to test if the light worked. >>>>> >>>>> Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/****mailman/listinfo/freebsd-****questions<; http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions>; >>>>> <http://lists.**freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/**freebsd-questions<; http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** >>>>> unsubscribe@freebsd.org<freebs**d-questions-unsubscribe@**freebsd.org< freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org> >>>>>> >>>>>> " >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Hi Chris, >>>> >>>> I have an Acer Aspire D150 and the LED hasn't been lit with FreeBSD, >>>> 9-rc3, >>>> 9-release or 10-current (with BroadCom and 2 Atheros cards). it did work >>>> with Fedora GNU/Linux 11. I did try setting in loader.conf as recommended >>>> to me to no avail. On one hand it was easy to get the attitude "who cares >>>> about the LED anyway" but on the other I'm thinking it's a simple little >>>> thing that's important,I guess like maybe buying a new car and it's >>>> missing >>>> a knob on the stereo. (?) :) I suppose it probably should work. >>>> >>>> Waitman Gobble >>>> San Jose California USA >>>> >>>> I have another HP laptop with a Broadcomm card which has a >>> >>> button_with_light and it just works. None of the sysctl oids above occur >>> though. Maybe I'll swap wireless cards between the two and see what happens. >>> >>> What is the output of sysctl -a |grep led ? >>> You'll get lots of "enabled's" but there might be something that relates >>> to led's. >>> >>> I had to change ledpin from default of 0 to 3 before any of the other ones >>> had any effect. >>> >>> Thanks for the reply anyway. >>> >>> Chris >>> >> >> Oh thats a good idea :) Thanks >> >> here's what someone recommended : >> >> dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 >> dev.ath.0.softled=1 >> >> but here are some extras i found from sysctl -a that i will check out: >> >> dev.ath.0.ledon: 0 >> dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 >> dev.ath.0.hardled: 0 >> dev.ath.0.led_net_pin: -1 >> dev.ath.0.led_pwr_pin: -1 >> >> Waitman Gobble >> San Jose California USA >> > I would give them a try. Set dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 then experiment. If you can't get any response try different values for ledpin or one of the other led*pin. > > I can't read source code :( but maybe you can get more info out of the code you posted. > > Chris cool. when i have some more time ill see about modifying the the code to make a little "flicker light" diagnostic tool, use to try to figure out correct settings i guess. just an idea, i checked for a couple minutes and didnt find one but maybe its already done :) Waitman
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