Wireless LED on Ubuntu

From Knowledge76

Overview

This How To gets that Wireless LED working on your laptop. Also see Alternative Method at the bottom of the page.

Create Script and Install

• Open your text editor and copy the following code into a blank document.

#!/bin/sh
#
# wled
#
WIRELESS_LED=/proc/acpi/asus/wled


# $IFACE is set by ifup/down, $PPP_IFACE by pppd
[ -n "$PPP_IFACE" ] && IFACE=$PPP_IFACE


[ -r $WIRELESS_LED ] || /sbin/modprobe asus_acpi


if [ -w $WIRELESS_LED ]; then
case $(dirname "$0") in
*/if-up.d)
if [ -d /sys/class/net/$IFACE/wireless ]; then
echo -n 1 > $WIRELESS_LED
fi
;;
*/if-down.d)
if [ -d /sys/class/net/$IFACE/wireless ]; then
echo -n 0 > $WIRELESS_LED
fi
;;
esac
fi

• Save the file - name it wled and place it in your home directory

From your terminal type

sudo install -m 755 /home/'username'/wled /etc/network/if-up.d/
sudo install -m 755 /home/'username'/wled /etc/network/if-down.d/

Alternative Method

This method may also work for some laptops.

From your terminal

sudo -s
echo "options ipw2200 led=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.modprobe
modprobe -r ipw2200
modprobe ipw2200
exit