Asus Eee wifi LED always on.
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I've got the standard Ubuntu 9.04 desktop version installed on an Asus eee pc 900 netbook. This machine has 2 gigs of ram and a 16gb solid state drive.
(I Couldn't use the netbook version of ubuntu 9.04 because that requires an atom cpu, and I've got a celeron cpu.)
There is a blue wifi LED on the bottom-right corner of this machine. This light always stays on. This suggests that wireless is always enabled.
When I had desktop Ubuntu 8.10 installed in this machine, the blue LED turned off when wireless was not in use.
I've turned wifi off in the bios, and Ubuntu then turns it back on.
Pushing fn-f2 is supposed to turn off wireless, but it doesn't.
I've tried many software-based techniques to disable wireless support and thus shut off the blue LED. None of them has worked. The machine says wireless is turned off, but the blue LED stays on.
Hopefully someone will come up with a fix!
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Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.