There IS a program that does this called 'netled'..
http://mars.ark.com/~mbevan/products/netled.shtml
(seen on freshmeat)
-phazer
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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>On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, M.Brands wrote:
>>
>> Why should this be a problem or a bug? I used to run NetBSD on a SS5-170
>> and you could get the LED to indicate the load! Blink once a second for
>> a load between 0-1, once every two seconds for a load between 1-2, etc.
>>
>> Pretty cool, if you ask me. They probably just changed the code the drives
>> the LED.
>>
>
>Damn... Makes me wanna drop the Intel computers! J/K
>
>However, that is a nice thing to be able to do - control a LED and use it
>for custom things. It could be done for an Intel on a keyboard on one of
>the least used lights: Scroll lock.
>
>I think it's a neat idea. Hm. Maybe when I know enough on how to friggin
>program, I'll see about writing a kernel patch to do just that...
>
>Back to learning C...
>
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