Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:38:49 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ath and how to control wireless light Message-ID: <4F2F1309.6090106@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fxYGgCvd3DNvYLhM-qsKZpDXMerNOQgQ9=zoXtsxV3FmQ@mail.gmail.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>
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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
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