Sorry for the very late response. I'm now running the 3.5.2 amd64 kernel like
you asked, to see if the light flickers. Sadly, it still does flicker. Also,
the ath5k driver runs at 54 Mb/s (just saying in case it matters) as opposed to
the 1 Mb/s that I had written in that old report back with Lenny.
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:34:55 -0500
> From: jrnie...@gmail.com
> To: denb...@live.com
> CC: 586...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [lenny-backports] Atheros AR242x wireless card relatively minor
> issues with Linux kernel 2.6.32 in Lenny (ath5k driver)
>
> Hi,
>
> Deniz Akcal wrote:
>
> > The more important part (for
> > me) of this bug report is that the light switches colour occasionally
> > which could at times being distracting but as I type this, the light
> > hasn't flickered for a
> > pretty long time but I'm pretty confident that it will again because the
> > intervals vary. Although the performance is not affected, "Connection
> > Information" on the Gnome
> > panel lists it as running as 1MB/s but I don't "feel" any slowdowns.
> [...]
> > product_name: HP G50 Notebook PC
>
> Thanks for writing, and sorry for the sloow response.
>
> Are you still using this machine? If so, what kernel do you use, and
> how does it behave?
>
> Curious,
> Jonathan
