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Weird wireless card problem

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hazard666

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Well I recently bought a compaq V6000t laptop because I knew that I didn't need the bells and whistles of the HPs and am loving it so far. However, I wanted to run Ubuntu and didn't want to deal with ndswrapper bs in order to get my broadcom card to work. So I bought an Intel 3945ABG mini pci express wireless card and just plugged it in. However, my laptop has a wireless on/off switch below the palmrest and this switch has an indicator LED next to it (orange for off, blue for on). Well obviously I'm online right now and everything is working great, but the LED is going nuts. It's putting on a nice show, flickering from orange to blue constantly. Is this something I have to worry about? Will there be any negative affects to changing this card?
 
I forgot to mention that I am running Vista, however I downloaded the drivers from Intel's site and it seems that they seem to fix this problem. Maybe it's a bug in the vista provided driver.


EDIT: ....and as soon as I hit submit, it starts doing it again, but only for a short duration and then stopped.
 
I guess that if one does not the specific type of Laptop with the specific type of card that you decided to installed it kind of hard to give you an answer.

Are you sure that this flickering light is not a normal indication for Network traffic?
 
I thought that might have been the case, but I've never noticed it do that before. The card seems to be working perfectly fine, I just don't want to experience problems further down the road that I did not knoow about (don't really know what could go wrong though).
 
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