While there's lots to like about my current laptop, one thing that had been quite annoying was the wireless indicator led. For a long time, it didn't function at all, because iwl4965 didn't contain support for driving it. Recently (effectively starting with Fedora 9 for me), that support came in, but now it's not annoying because you can't tell whether wireless is enabled, rather because the led is blinking all the time, which is a distraction.
I liked the behavior of my old laptop's ipw2200 much better: blink while
searching/associating with a network, and then stay on constantly. Happily,
Erich
Schubert just pointed out how to fix the iwl4965 blinking behavior. That
script is (I think) for Debian/Ubuntu, and a slightly different kind is needed
on Fedora. I'm not sure this is the best way to go about it, but at least it
works for me: put the following in
/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/iwl-no-blink
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$0" = "wlan0" ]; then
for dir in /sys/class/leds/iwl-phy*X; do
echo none > $dir/trigger
done
fi
