WLAN LED indicator stuck on [ Edited ]

[Navck]

It seems that after I updated from 13.02 to 13.03 on the Intel Wireless Proset drivers, the WLAN indicator stays on regardless of the FN-F5 status. The card does power the indicator off when the physical switch on the right is moved into the off state.

Uninstalling the 13.03 driver and downgrading to the 13.02 driver has not helped me.

Any ideas?

PS: I've messed with the LedMode registry setting to set it to 0 to see if it would force the LED to power off, no dice.

Reinstalled PM driver, no dice still. Reinstalled hotkey functionality, still no dice.

Nodda, I've tried downgrading to the 13.00s and nothing has worked.

Oddly, the drivers install with the switch set to off. They previously would not install as the 6300 would appear to be on the system when it is in this state. Hoping this will give ideas to anyone who might know what is going on here.

Tad (Very*) frustrating for me, it was nice when I was able to be sure of the 6300's status through the indicator.

Looks like I'm not the only one with this problem:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/Wi-Fi-Led-indicator-still-lights-on/m-p/283...

One last thing if this helps: Forcing the wireless card setting to off in the BIOS does not power the LED off after saving and restarting.

[bananaman]

Hi Navck!

Fn-F5 requires the power management driver and hotkey features package. Try reinstalling them.

Hope this helps!

[Navck]

Did that twice already with the latest versions and the ones shipped in swtools to check if it was a bug in the latest releases.

To clarify what is going on:
The radio respects the soft off status but the status indicator LED does not show this. The hardware switch WILL turn the radio off and the LED to reflect this status.

Previously it would indicate the soft off status, now it doesn't and I've gone through several items on trying to solve this.

[Navck]

Called TS, if it happens to be a software problem I need to reload these (Doing this right now) in this specific order:

Power Manager

Power Management Driver

Hotkey Features integration

Wireless driver

Otherwise it seems I get a new 6300*.

*Looks like a hardware failure.

[Maliha Community Moderator]

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Navck wrote:

Called TS, if it happens to be a software problem I need to reload these (Doing this right now) in this specific order:

Power Manager

Power Management Driver

Hotkey Features integration

Wireless driver

Otherwise it seems I get a new 6300*.

*Looks like a hardware failure.

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So did installing the drivers in the given order solve the issue?

Maliha

[Navck]

No, I ended up replacing the card and reinstalling the entire OS.

It was working fine until 5 minutes ago, now it refuses to act normal again...

One of the abnormal behaviors of the WLAN card right now is it seems to NOT power off when the system is cycled through a restart, the LED remains lit. Normally it should blink off and stay off just as the system cycles power. Then the HDD, WAN/Bluetooth then WLAN LEDs will blink on and off in that order. Now it insists on staying on.

Last thing I did was to finish loading the Intel Rapid Storage drivers. Rolling them back did nothing except to solve my weird audio stuttering/crazy DPC latency after using the latest version.

I can't believe something as simple as the WLAN LED functionality would be broken...

Previously I had it set so that it would blink during activity, it was working fine for 8 hours. The swapped card did not respond as the previous card. It seems like tormorrow is another call to TS.

[Navck]

And for some reason it seems to be stuck again. Only thing that has changed was this system was put through a reset and hibernated.

Edit: Or not, I'll see what I did that fixed the behavior again.

[Maliha Community Moderator]

Maybe it's both hardware and software glitch, I would suggest contacting lenovo service to have a look at the LED indicator.

[Navck]

Restart the Qualcomm Gobi 2000 Download Service (Lenovo) in services.msc.

The Gobi 2000 card stays on and does not properly power off, making the WLAN LED Indicator remain on.

All this headache over the Gobi 2000 module that I don't even use...

[Maliha Community Moderator]

If you don't use the card you can permanently disable it in the BIOS or Device Manager given that if such an option subsists. If that doesn't work out, then consider physically uninstalling it from the machine.