how-to: June 2011 Archives
So Ubuntu 11.04 was release a few weeks ago and I decided to upgrade this weekend. In prep for the upgrade, I backed up my laptop onto my external portable hard drive that I may need (my home dir, and a few other things in /etc, some cronjobs, etc.). I then did a clean re-install from CD. In the past the ugrade-in-place has taken a long time, and was not completely problem free. Whereas the last time I did a clean re-install it was pretty much problem free- except getting all my personal files/configuration/settings the way I like them all back took some time. So that is the same approach I decided to take with this upgrade.
Its only been 2 days since I upgraded on Friday and I just remembered that the little LED on my laptop for wireless networking blinks now as the default behavior. Ugh!!! So stupid. I remember going bonkers about this last time. However, the solution I used last time isn't going to work now since things have changed in the new version of Ubuntu.
So... this is how I fixed it this time. I created a file in /etc/modprob.d/ called wlan.conf and added this one line to the file:
root@spencer-laptop:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/wlan.confoptions iwlcore led_mode=1
And then I rebooted, and BINGO! No more flashing light for wireless! Yay! And the was much rejoicing.
