WiFi LED - How to turn it off

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I don't see any means to manually control the WiFi LED. You should look
through the software supplied by HP and see if there is anything, whether a
program or a library, which does this operation. If you can find something
that does, there may be a way to figure out how to do it. Otherwise, I'd
guess that the LED is hard-wired to a status indicator from the WiFi
chipset. If that's the case, you'd have to disable WiFi to turn it off.

What else can you tell us about 'why'?

Paul T.
 
The main reason is because many of my users have requested it. They say that
the Blue LED in hx4700 is so bright that they can't concentrate reading.

In fact there is a library BWLEDMgr.dll that is the one handling this LED.
But I have not found any info about it.



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Paul G. Tobey said:
I don't see any means to manually control the WiFi LED. You should look
through the software supplied by HP and see if there is anything, whether a
program or a library, which does this operation. If you can find something
that does, there may be a way to figure out how to do it. Otherwise, I'd
guess that the LED is hard-wired to a status indicator from the WiFi
chipset. If that's the case, you'd have to disable WiFi to turn it off.

What else can you tell us about 'why'?

Paul T.
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Well, that's an important piece of information. Is the DLL in ROM or can
you copy it to your desktop computer from the device? If you can copy it,
you can see what functions it exports using dumpbin.exe or depends.exe,
which come with eVC.

Paul T.

Ctitanic said:
The main reason is because many of my users have requested it. They say
that
the Blue LED in hx4700 is so bright that they can't concentrate reading.

In fact there is a library BWLEDMgr.dll that is the one handling this LED.
But I have not found any info about it.



--
Frank J. (Ctitanic)
www.pc-counselor.com
Home of Tweaks2k2
Paul G. Tobey said:
I don't see any means to manually control the WiFi LED. You should look
through the software supplied by HP and see if there is anything, whether a
program or a library, which does this operation. If you can find something
that does, there may be a way to figure out how to do it. Otherwise, I'd
guess that the LED is hard-wired to a status indicator from the WiFi
chipset. If that's the case, you'd have to disable WiFi to turn it off.

What else can you tell us about 'why'?

Paul T.

CTitanic said:
In any iPaq. it does not matter.
lets start with the hx4700?

Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
"the WiFi LED"? On what device, for goodness sake?!

Paul T.


Does anyone know how to turn off the WiFi LED by code?
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that dll is in ROM and I could not find a way to copy it out of it.
Well, that's an important piece of information. Is the DLL in ROM or can
you copy it to your desktop computer from the device? If you can copy it,
you can see what functions it exports using dumpbin.exe or depends.exe,
which come with eVC.

Paul T.

The main reason is because many of my users have requested it. They say
that
the Blue LED in hx4700 is so bright that they can't concentrate reading.

In fact there is a library BWLEDMgr.dll that is the one handling this LED.
But I have not found any info about it.



--
Frank J. (Ctitanic)
www.pc-counselor.com
Home of Tweaks2k2
I don't see any means to manually control the WiFi LED. You should look
through the software supplied by HP and see if there is anything, whether
a

program or a library, which does this operation. If you can find
something

that does, there may be a way to figure out how to do it. Otherwise, I'd
guess that the LED is hard-wired to a status indicator from the WiFi
chipset. If that's the case, you'd have to disable WiFi to turn it off.

What else can you tell us about 'why'?

Paul T.


In any iPaq. it does not matter.
lets start with the hx4700?

Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:

"the WiFi LED"? On what device, for goodness sake?!

Paul T.



Does anyone know how to turn off the WiFi LED by code?
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Then you'll have to get the documentation on what it does from the device
OEM, I guess...

Paul T.

CTitanic said:
that dll is in ROM and I could not find a way to copy it out of it.
Well, that's an important piece of information. Is the DLL in ROM or can
you copy it to your desktop computer from the device? If you can copy
it, you can see what functions it exports using dumpbin.exe or
depends.exe, which come with eVC.

Paul T.

The main reason is because many of my users have requested it. They say
that
the Blue LED in hx4700 is so bright that they can't concentrate reading.

In fact there is a library BWLEDMgr.dll that is the one handling this
LED.
But I have not found any info about it.



--
Frank J. (Ctitanic)
www.pc-counselor.com
Home of Tweaks2k2
"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
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I don't see any means to manually control the WiFi LED. You should look
through the software supplied by HP and see if there is anything,
whether

a

program or a library, which does this operation. If you can find

something

that does, there may be a way to figure out how to do it. Otherwise,
I'd
guess that the LED is hard-wired to a status indicator from the WiFi
chipset. If that's the case, you'd have to disable WiFi to turn it off.

What else can you tell us about 'why'?

Paul T.


In any iPaq. it does not matter.
lets start with the hx4700?

Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:

"the WiFi LED"? On what device, for goodness sake?!

Paul T.



Does anyone know how to turn off the WiFi LED by code?
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