Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:56:21 +0200 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using leds on laptop Message-ID: <a0777e081002011356x1716c12dsa6a3a52b60f94512@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <179b97fb1002011335r1b057e48oa62e4a3830376fd8@mail.gmail.com> References: <a0777e081002011022g3099b358ge83d5431d8ee62df@mail.gmail.com> <20100201202813.9f3dc1c9.freebsd@edvax.de> <a0777e081002011224p5dce0852u75680638ffa99af3@mail.gmail.com> <179b97fb1002011335r1b057e48oa62e4a3830376fd8@mail.gmail.com>
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It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and charging lights) ndis0: <Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter> mem 0xf4700000-0xf4703fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 bge0: <Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev. 0xc002> mem 0xf4600000-0xf460ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci7 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the "pure LED", but as > > > >> you mentioned that it is labelled "wireless", it is in > >> relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a > >> device driver functionality that activates the LED when > >> the WLAN device is active? > >> > > > > Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing > > > > > >> Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond > >> to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of > >> the WLAN? > >> > > I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does > the > > physical switch change anything > > > >> > >> Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way > >> to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it > >> with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to > >> you if you put enough money onto the table. :-) > >> > > It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the > > specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - > > *wonders* > > > >> > >> Otherwise, it's completely useless. > >> -- > >> Polytropon > >> Magdeburg, Germany > >> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > >> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > If it's and Intel card (iwi(4), ipw(4), iwn(4)), it's a matter of > knowing what command to send to the firmware. > > What device do you have in the laptop? > > Check the dmesg(8) output... > > -Brandon >
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