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    R500 WLAN-LED and Atheros Wireless

    Discussion in 'LG' started by Yuna, Feb 14, 2009.

  1. Yuna

    Yuna Notebook Guru

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    Hi, today I installed Atheros Ar5008 wireless (sick of intel's 4965) and now i have two small problems:

    1. I have no blue-ligt LED at the back working (drivers from Azurewave R310 model wireless which is BTW Atheros ;)) - i connected antennas as -1 numbers IE - at intel i had ports 1 2 3, here - 0 1 2, so i connected 1 to 0, 2 to 1 and 3 to 2 ;)

    any ideas?

    2. I can't turn off wireless via Fn+F6 :)
    Anyone studied how it realy works?
     
    Yuna, Feb 14, 2009
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I don't think Fn+F6 has anything to do with the driver.

    As for the LED, my computer's wireless LED has different behaviours depending on what drivers are installed, so I believe that maybe able to be fixed with different drivers.
     
    namaiki, Feb 14, 2009
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  3. Yuna

    Yuna Notebook Guru

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    So, how to re-enable/fix Fn-F6?

    Well, mine too has different, and sometimes i even was able to make i work - i installed CommView (wireless sniffer) and it's driver - and LED began to blink, is there a way for ours to turn on/off the LED?
     
    Yuna, Feb 14, 2009
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  4. krackpot

    krackpot Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm looking for a driver which stops the LED from blinking. It's annoying. I stuck a sticker over mine. If I use a USB Wireless card, the LED doesn't blink. So it's got to be something with the driver for the Intel card...
     
    krackpot, Feb 19, 2009
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  5. Yuna

    Yuna Notebook Guru

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    There is no AFAIK to stop it from blinking, it's in drivers...
     
    Yuna, Feb 19, 2009
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