Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:49:21 -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_fxYGgCvd3DNvYLhM-qsKZpDXMerNOQgQ9=zoXtsxV3FmQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2D1BE0.7050901@onetel.com> References: <4F2AA33E.6010207@onetel.com> <CAFuo_fyT5cjn_x_FcVANj_-A=sd3UEDuNtAy1LjkE9cL-0AKew@mail.gmail.com> <4F2D1BE0.7050901@onetel.com>
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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
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