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Can someone tell me how to get the wifi LED to stay on in Mageia 2 rc? The blinking drives me crazy. Thanks.

You need to be more specific.
What sort of computer are you running?
Laptop? Desktop? Netbook?
Brand? Make?
For example - Dell inpirion 123, or Asus netbook 456

Are you running Mageia1?
Have you added all the latest updates? Did it break during an update?
Are you running Mageia2 Beta(1? 2? RC?).

If you have patience to go through with helping fix your "bug", are you willing to report a detailed description so that it gets fixed?

..what it comes down to, is, you need to help those trying to help, by being more specific, because general observations aren't helpful.

Good luck.

Blinking usually signals data transfer. Please provide the output of

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lspcidrake | grep -i net

If you have an Intel wireless card, you should be able to fix the blinking LED by:

• starting the Mageia Control Centre
• selecting the "Hardware" tab
• clicking on "Browse and configure hardware"
• finding and selecting your wireless card in the list (should be in the "Ethernet card" category)
• clicking on the "Set current driver options" button
• find the "led_mode" option, enter "1" in the box next to it, and click on the "Ok" button
• quit the Mageia Control Centre

This will take effect the next time you boot.

If you don't have an Intel wireless card, or the above procedure doesn't work for you, please provide the information doktor5000 requested.

martinw wrote:If you have an Intel wireless card, you should be able to fix the blinking LED by:

• find the "led_mode" option, enter "1" in the box next to it, and click on the "Ok" button

If you don't have an Intel wireless card, or the above procedure doesn't work for you, please provide the information doktor5000 requested.

FWIW, i've got an IWL5100, and the iwlagn module doesn't support this option That's why i've asked for more information on the kernel module in use.

doktor5000 wrote:FWIW, i've got an IWL5100, and the iwlagn module doesn't support this option That's why i've asked for more information on the kernel module in use.

Yep, that's why I said that if the above procedure doesn't work, the OP should follow your instructions

FWIW, I've also got a IWL5100, but the Mageia 2 installer picked the iwlwifi driver for me, which does support this option.

Thanks, martinw's suggestion worked. Mageia 1 does not have that option in the MCC (at least mine doesn't). I had previously added the "options iwlcore led_mode=1" command manually to the ipw-no-associate.conf file in Mageia 1 but this didn't work in Mageia 2rc. Thanks for the help.

Please mark the thread as [SOLVED] then ...

Glad it worked. Yes, the module name you need to apply the option to has changed - it's now "options iwlwifi led_mode=1". MCC just does what you did manually (but puts the option in the mga.conf file).