Bug 393811

Summary:	iwl3945 doesn't support LED
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Harald Koenig <koenig>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, funtasyspace, lavrinenko_alex
Version:	Factory
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Harald Koenig 2008-05-22 23:25:49 UTC

the new iwl3945 driver no longer supportes the LED(s) so there is no information for the user if wlan is on/working/... 

the old ipw3945 did support the LED (using an IBM T60), so that's a clear step backwards from 10.3 to 11.0.

using the compat-wireless driver adds LED support and works great for me -- please add/update !!


more details in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376742#c14 and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376742#c18

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2008-05-23 06:03:26 UTC

The iwl3945 driver in 10.3 failed the same way ;-)

Nevertheless, having LED support would be nice.

Comment 2 Harald Koenig 2008-05-23 06:40:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #1 from Andreas Jaeger)
> The iwl3945 driver in 10.3 failed the same way ;-)

but in 10.3 for my T60 th ipw driver was automatically selected and everything worked fine for me as user.  I didn't even know about iwl3945 before starting 11.0 beta-tests. and now that ipw driver is gone (I still wonder why _now_)...

> Nevertheless, having LED support would be nice.

compat-wireless-2008-05-22.tar.bz2 _is_ nice ;-)

Comment 3 Jörg Hermsdorf 2008-05-25 08:10:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 373182 ***

Comment 4 Helmut Schaa 2008-05-26 07:26:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #2 from Harald Koenig)
> and now that ipw driver is gone (I still wonder why _now_)...

Intel does not support the ipw3945 driver anymore and iwl3945 is in the mainline kernel already.

Comment 5 Alexander Lavrinenko 2008-05-26 14:24:16 UTC

iwl3945's LED works fine on my nc6400 (both LEDs - on wifi button and on the edge of laptop).