Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-02 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 2/1/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and charging lights) ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18

using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:22:22 +0200, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something I'm

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? Might be - but I don't have windows so I

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and charging lights) ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 bge0: Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev.

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Which Lenovo laptop model is it? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: