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Friday, December 16, 2005

Getting the Wi-Fi LED working in HP Pavilion dv1000

Ubuntu Breezy (2.6.12 kernel)

1) Get the pci address of the network controller:



2) And then:
$ su -
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led

3) Put this inside /etc/rcS.d/S50local so that it lights up everytime you boot:

  #!/bin/sh
 echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led


4) Make it executable:

# chmod +x /etc/rcS.d/S50local


Note: To enable it to light up back again after resuming from a sleep (suspend-to-RAM), add this to /etc/acpi/resume.sh:

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