I'm wondering how to turn on (correctly) the lights on my laptop. My laptop has red/blue button for wifi and red/white for the touchpad. My problem is that the wifi is always red even when connected throwing me off when attempting to setup the connection (have to test with iwlist); the touchpad won't turn off when you hit the button (turning it to red).
If it's anything I'm using Arch linux and I seached for this, but came up nothing.
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, Jun 14 2009 01:39 PM
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Posted 14 June 2009 - 01:39 PM
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Posted 14 June 2009 - 03:53 PM
You need to find the drivers for the brand of laptop to get those lights working. I had to do the exact same thing with my Aspire One.I'm wondering how to turn on (correctly) the lights on my laptop. My laptop has red/blue button for wifi and red/white for the touchpad. My problem is that the wifi is always red even when connected throwing me off when attempting to setup the connection (have to test with iwlist); the touchpad won't turn off when you hit the button (turning it to red).
If it's anything I'm using Arch linux and I seached for this, but came up nothing.
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Posted 14 June 2009 - 05:41 PM
I did a search and it gave me stuff from the ubuntu forums, in it they solved it via ndiswrapper. I'm using ath5k to get wifi, not ndiswrapper. What do I search exactly? I did "Compaq Presario CQ50 wireless switch".
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Posted 15 June 2009 - 02:41 PM
The wifi LED on my Aspire One didn't do anything with the ath5k drivers using the stock wifi card. I switch in an Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG card, and now the LED not only turns on when the card connects to stuff, but blinks when the wireless card is moving data. I'm not sure if it's a hardware thing, or the driver for the particular card. As I'm also using Arch Linux, I'd guess it's probably driver-related.
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Posted 16 June 2009 - 06:19 PM
On my toshiba there is a setting in the bios that allows you to turn off all of the lights on the deck. If you can't get a software fix you could always just disable them. That would be a quick fix.
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Posted 17 June 2009 - 04:19 PM
They're already shown to be "off" so I don't think it really matters, but thanks for the tip!
The command to check which hardware I have eludes me right now...but I do know it can work because it turns blue for a breif moment at bootup.
The command to check which hardware I have eludes me right now...but I do know it can work because it turns blue for a breif moment at bootup.
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