The status-LED for my Wifi is blinking constantly on my Lenovo laptop. This is really annoying because it does so even if it’s just communicating with the router.
I searched the web for a way to disable this, but the only threads I found were as old as the laptop. Is there a way to stop this, turning the LED into just a status-indicator for “on: Wifi enabled/off: Wifi disabled”?
Hello @Downer_Dan
It’s the same with my T410. The more activity, the faster the LED flashes. It never really bothered me. At least then you know that wifi is being used.
Edit:
Sorry about my post. Glad @ricklinux was able to help you.
@Downer_Dan
What is the WiFi chip? inxi -Na
@shadow359 That’s kind of my point, it is blinking constantly, not just when I use it.
Systemmonitor shows only a few bytes are transferred, Wireshark doesn’t show any activity at all.
Device-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:0084 class-ID: 0280
You could try the following since it’s iwlwifi.
Edit: Create or modify.
/etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
add
options iwlwifi led_mode=1
Then reboot and let it connect.
Note: led_mode=0 is usually system default (blinking), 1 is off, 2 is solid
Not sure if it will work or not. 
Worth trying.
unfortunately, it does not 
edit: oh wait, it does! I had a typo in the .conf-file
You marked it as a solution? Is this just to close this topic since you can’t resolve it?
Edit: I saw your post after. So it does work? Yeah! Awesome!
Edit: Typo’s do make a difference!
@Downer_Dan
At first I was going to tell you to use masking tape! 
Edit: I’m glad it worked. I’ve not been asked this before.
Exactly, it works fine. 
Since there are no other files in modprobe.d, I thought there might be another file I have to edit, but then I found a page on the arch-wiki, telling me to “try to use the led_mode=”1” module option”
So I had another look, and I put “2” instead of “1”, and turns out that “2” seems to be the blinking-mode, and “1” is the solid-mode.
Ya i wrote exactly that in my response.
Note: led_mode=0 is usually system default (blinking), 1 is off, 2 is solid
Now I got curious and tried 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4
With 0 and 2 it is blinking, with 1, 3 and 4 it is solid on 
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