Wireless light flashing

[kronus980]

I'm using an HP HDX 18, on Ubuntu 12.10, with the wireless card:
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

Did the most recent kernel upgrade(provided by Ubuntu):

3.5.0-23-generic
restarted, logged in and it's flashing. Wi-fi works fine, I'm just worried. Should I be? And is there any way to stop the flashing? Thanks in advance.

[tgalati4]

Electrical tape.

What module is loaded for wireless?


lsmod
modinfo wirelessmodulethatyoudiscoveredfromabovecommand

There may be a module switch to turn it off or change it's flashing behavior.

[kronus980]

I don't know what that output means D: (Not so good with Linux yet..) But I ran the command, the only thing that was related to wifi was this:


mac80211 539958 1 iwlwifi

Is that of any use? Or do you want the entire output?

[tgalati4]

Didn't find anything here:

tgalati4@Dell600m-mint14 ~ $ modinfo mac80211
filename: /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
license: GPL
description: IEEE 802.11 subsystem
srcversion: 4E9B5E45BF1683A7E81BC0A
depends: cfg80211
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.5.0-17-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 686
parm: max_nullfunc_tries:Maximum nullfunc tx tries before disconnecting (reason 4). (int)
parm: max_probe_tries:Maximum probe tries before disconnecting (reason 4). (int)
parm: probe_wait_ms:Maximum time(ms) to wait for probe response before disconnecting (reason 4). (int)
parm: ieee80211_default_rc_algo:Default rate control algorithm for mac80211 to use (charp)

Post the entire output of lsmod.

[|{urse]

Due to dyslexia I saw this post as "Wireless Flashlight" and I lol'd a bit.

[fugue69]

Kronus,

I have an HDX 18 as well (although I'm running Ubuntu 12.04)... Have you tried editing the wlan.conf file?

Try this (it worked for me):


$ sudo -i
# echo 'options iwlwifi led_mode=1' >> /etc/modprobe.d/wlan.conf
# modprobe -r iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi
# exit