Enable indicator LED for Intel 2200BG and 2915ABG wireless cards

20 12 2007

The 2200BG and 2915ABG cards use the ipw2200 driver, which is able to control the wifi indicator LED which most laptops will use.

To enable, run the following as root or with sudo privileges:
echo "options ipw2200 led=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.modprobe modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200
Note that these steps were used with a Dell Inspiron 6000 and Ubuntu 7.10. Certain chipsets may instead use the acerhk module, or need to add the “options ipw2200 led=1″ to a different location.

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Date : December 20, 2007
Tags: 2200BG, 2915ABG, intel, ipw2200, led, linux, wireless
Categories : Uncategorized

4 responses

8 03 2008: bedi (11:55:04) :

Thanks,
This works perfectly for mee

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29 06 2008: SuperFabius (12:50:55) :

Great!!!!

It worked perfectly on a HP TC4200 (2200BG wireless based) with Ubuntu 8.04

Thanks a lot!!!

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18 07 2008: Sergio Rafael Lemke (15:35:05) :

I Just reported a bug on Mandriva bugzilla to have this fixed, thanks a lot
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42130

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18 07 2008: dmaz (20:46:57) :

It’s frustrating to have this driver option available but disabled by default. OpenSuse enables it by default, while Ubuntu does not.
The reason for this is this bit from the driver’s Readme,

NOTE: The LED code has been reported to hang some systems when running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default

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