Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:28020 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754914AbYKDRfE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:35:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] PROBLEM: Led for wifi blinking all the time From: reinette chatre To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ond=C5=99ej_Ku=C4=8Dera?= Cc: Marcos Barbosa , "John W. Linville" , "jikos@suse.cz" , "Zhu, Yi" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" In-Reply-To: <490FAC3B.6030205@centrum.cz> References: <490A5D39.1090605@centrum.cz> <20081031145434.GB4310@tuxdriver.com> <42bbb5c30810311159v50785ac7jfc8ef8eb3e32ea9b@mail.gmail.com> <490FAC3B.6030205@centrum.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:35:33 -0800 Message-Id: <1225820133.1115.522.camel@rc-desk> (sfid-20081104_183511_419985_A48CAADA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. >=20 > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html