Wanted: DEC750 turn lights off -feature

[olmari]

I have two DEC750 and one DEC2752 where one of the 750s is especialyl at parade place at domestic enviroment. I'd so wish there would be an way to basically turn all lights/leds off... Optionally there could be some "one light blinks every minute to show it is on" if such is desired, but generally if I could jsut turn of the blinkenlights and sleep better at nights would be awesome. :P

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Duct tape?  :P

[newsense]

Keep it unplugged for maximum security and convenience :)

[olmari]

For f**k sakes...

[meyergru]

Joking aside, I think this is not possible, because the LEDs on are not controlled by any driver, but the hardware itself. I have used a black felt tip pen (Edding) for cases like these...

[newsense]

They're also useful diagnostic and troubleshooting tools. If the lights would have been optional they would have been axed a long time ago to reduce costs.

[olmari]

Well, I know this is/was an long shot... Many, especially low-end consumer routers, has every led behind GPIO practically, whole another thing is that is it ever exposed with OEM firmware, with Openwrt it is usually available in those =)

Then another thing is that indeed sometimes NIC/PHY drivers/firmware/xxx has undocumented features where led control is one of them...

Ofcourse I know there exists MacGyver solutions with Jesus-tape and pineapples and tree sap, but software control would have been awesome ;P