Wi-Fi Button Flashing Strobe Light..!

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My old HP G60 Laptop has the power button and the Wi-Fi button located centrally above the keyboard. When connected to Wi-Fi this illuminated button flashes like a strobe in my eyes. I have to cover it up it is that annoying.
Is there a simple fix in AntiX-22 Full ..?

Thanks

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I have nearly the same exact issue… WIFI on/off switch is now a net traffic monitor after setting up antiX22full32bit… HP Pavilion, Intel 3945ABG WIFI adapter… only one driver available for it, if that’s even the reason

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I would have it fixed quicker than it takes me to write out this post if it bothered me that much.

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lol I’ve actually thought about that.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by mrpieceofwork.

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Hey Guys – Nice bit of banter – good humour 🙂 🙂 🙂 As for your solution – A bit obvious; even to Fred Flintstone – Yaba Daba Doo 🙂 🙂 🙂 Surprised you did not recommend using a club, baseball bat, hammer etc 🙂 and just smash the shit out of the flashing light – hey, jam a screwdriver in there and prize it out 🙂 Did you guys go to school with that Trump dude who recommends injection of disinfectant to cure Covid 🙂 🙂 🙂

Joking apart; that strobe light comes straight through that insulation tape – Yes Fred; I know keep adding layer after layer – Duh..!
So let us engage our brains and think of something lightproof and about a tenth the thickness of insulation tape…??? In the kitchen? Bright and shiny? Turkeys just love it at Xmas? Ah – Got it…! 🙂 Aluminium Foil. Simple 🙂

Lets experiment – I still need to be able to use this mechanical button switch – can Fred Flintstone dig this..? 🙂 I cut a crude circle of foil and stuck it to a square of sellotape. I then placed the button upside down centrally and trimmed away the excess tape as best as I could – nothing too fancy.
Hey Presto – works first time out with just a tiny bit of light leakage around the rim of the button – cool.
If I can be arsed; will use a hole punch on the foil and use the exact circle of foil from the waste tray – neat or what 🙂 then use scalpel to trim the sellotape.

I used this method before to cover the inbuilt webcam above the screen using insulation tape and foil – this time the foil serving to protect the camera lens from the tacky goo of the tape – should I decide to use the webcam one day. Simple 🙂

Cheers Fred – Yaba Daba Doo

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[Member ile]

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hello
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/networking/intel-wireless-blinking-led-indicator-light/

example from antiX 19 /etc/modprobe.d
“iwlwifi-no-blink.conf …”

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#-- disable iwlwifi blinking on some systems ---------------------------------
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The option below will stop the wireless indicator from blinking and make
# turn it on constantly on some systems that use the iwlwifi driver which
# is used for recent Intel wireless chips.

# options iwlwifi led_mode=1

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Barney, “Hey Fred! Hee hee hee!”
Bam Bam: “BAM! BAM!”
Fred: “Wilma! (background: bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, urgently banging on the door) 🙂

Yaba daba doo!

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Hi ile and thanks.

A bit above my experience but dived in and had a go..! OMG – think I screwed up?
Went to the link and did literally what it said under sudo pcmanfm.
Created file in the correct place and then simply pasted in – setting X to 1
However after reboot light still flashing so went looking for ath5k driver folder and found to my horror they were breeding OMG..!

Suppose I should delete all folders except one? Then delete file I created?
Oh Dear – looks like the cave men and women were right all along..? 🙂 🙂 🙂

Awaiting your instructions – Cheers 🙂

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Brian Masinick wrote:

Yaba daba doo!

Hey – This Dude is speaking my language 🙂
Don’t forget the Gogs – great real animations – plenty vids out there – even world cup footy 🙂

Any idea how to get out of this…?

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OMG – think I screwed up?

Should I wipe and do a clean install?

Cheers

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