is there an option to disable useless led light on a dongle?

[nickpitlosh]

just thought it would be nice.

[RinCat]

No built-in option, if you want to disable, try remove #define CONFIG_RTW_LED in include/autoconf.h.

[silvernode]

just curious, how is the LED light useless? It's useful for debugging if the device is working at a quick glance in my opinion.

[martins-1992]

@silvernode I think he means, that the blinking interrupts one toughts, if the dongle is visible and no debugging needs to be done.

[nickpitlosh]

Some sense in the world.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 2:43 AM Martins Avots @.***> wrote:

@silvernode https://github.com/silvernode I think he means, that the blinking interrupts one toughts, if the dongle is visible and no debugging needs to be done.

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[gusennan]

@nickpitlosh Did you try doing this and did it work?

[barak]

I'd advocate making a proper configuration option to enable/disable the LED, so it can be toggled not only at compile time but also at runtime.

$ echo 0 > /proc/net/rtl88x2bu/das_blinken_lights

This would be really useful for me, since my dongle has a super-bright blue LED and it's on at night in a little server in my bedroom and it felt like trying to sleep in a laser disco until I covered the annoying thing with some duct tape.

[barak]

WAIT A SECOND!!! What's this?

$ cat /proc/net/rtl88x2bu/wlx1cbfceb2abdb/led_config 
strategy:12
bRegUseLed:1
iface_en_mask:0x01
ctl_en_mask[0]:0xFFFFFFFF

Hmmm.

$ echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/net/rtl88x2bu/wlx1cbfceb2abdb/led_config 
0

and the LED is OFF!!!!

$ cat /proc/net/rtl88x2bu/wlx1cbfceb2abdb/led_config 
strategy:0
bRegUseLed:1
iface_en_mask:0x01
ctl_en_mask[0]:0xFFFFFFFF