Re: [RFC] Dell Activity LED daemon and udev rule

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Rodgers
On 3/5/2010 2:07 PM, Ken Murray wrote: > On 5 March 2010 11:48, Bob Rodgers wrote: > >> Here are the two approaches mentioned: >> 1 Daemon: >> + only runs on demand on applicable machines >> - approx 8MB memory usage for python daemon, possibly much less f

Re: [RFC] Dell Activity LED daemon and udev rule

2010-03-05 Thread Bob Rodgers
> On 3/2/2010 1:31 AM, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:43 -0600, Bob Rodgers wrote: >> >> We have written a trivial example python program that will turn >> on the LED based on network up/down state as determined by the >> NetworkManager dbus inte

Re: [RFC] Dell Activity LED daemon and udev rule

2010-03-02 Thread Bob Rodgers
On 3/2/2010 1:31 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:43 -0600, Bob Rodgers wrote: >> The Dell Latitude 2100 and upcoming follow-on models are netbooks intended >> for classroom use and have a prominent Activity LED embedded in the top of >> the lid so clas

[RFC] Dell Activity LED daemon and udev rule

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Rodgers
The Dell Latitude 2100 and upcoming follow-on models are netbooks intended for classroom use and have a prominent Activity LED embedded in the top of the lid so classroom instructors can observe it from a distance. This Activity LED on older models only tracked the wireless LAN LED indicator. Ne