Acer Aspire 5520 wireless activity LED indicator does not work

[clovepower]

Wireless activity LED indicator on Acer Aspire 5520 laptop does not work, it stays off all the time.

This can be fixed by entering following rows in /etc/rc.local

sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1

as explained here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerAspire5520#WirelessLed

but it appears the switches will be removed in newer kernels.

The same thing is known to happen on AspireOne that uses same wireless adapter, see

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/284474

(not sure if this should be marked as duplicated).

[clovepower (mzattera)]

Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64

Linux set 2.6.24-21-generic

[clovepower (mzattera)]

For what it matters, I'm using madwifi-HAL 0.10.5.6-r3861 (manually compiled from their site, since the ones provided with Ubunto do not work)

[FredBezies (fredbezies-deactivatedaccount)]

Looks like it is related to acerhk package not being built for AMD64.

See bug #238496 for more infos.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Unfortunately it seems this bug is still an issue. Can you confirm this issue exists with the most recent Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[clovepower (mzattera)]

Seems fixed in Karmic:

Linux set 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux