Re: PirateBox is setup and inactive but the USB key is always blinking

ok, so I did find some time to dig out an USB stick with a LED and reinstalled a stock PirateBox on my MR3020. For me, the USB light is steady, only blinking when activity.

here the comparable output to yours

root@ty5Etx2w:/# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:         29180        26620         2560            0         4408
-/+ buffers:              22212         6968
Swap:        32764          188        32576
root@ty5Etx2w:/# ps
  PID USER       VSZ STAT COMMAND
    1 root      1504 S    init
    2 root         0 SW   [kthreadd]
    3 root         0 SW   [ksoftirqd/0]
    5 root         0 SW   [kworker/u:0]
    6 root         0 SW<  [khelper]
   63 root         0 SW   [sync_supers]
   65 root         0 SW   [bdi-default]
   67 root         0 SW<  [kblockd]
   96 root         0 SW   [kswapd0]
  144 root         0 SW   [fsnotify_mark]
  173 root         0 SW<  [ath79-spi]
  184 root         0 SW   [mtdblock0]
  189 root         0 SW   [mtdblock1]
  194 root         0 SW   [mtdblock2]
  199 root         0 SW   [mtdblock3]
  204 root         0 SW   [mtdblock4]
  209 root         0 SW   [mtdblock5]
  250 root         0 RW   [kworker/0:1]
  444 root         0 SWN  [jffs2_gcd_mtd3]
  474 root         0 SW   [khubd]
  483 root         0 SW   [scsi_eh_0]
  484 root         0 SW   [usb-storage]
  485 root         0 SW   [kworker/0:2]
  486 root         0 SW   [kworker/u:2]
  510 root      1504 S    init
  545 root         0 SW<  [cfg80211]
  623 root         0 SW<  [bat_events]
  650 root      1508 S    /sbin/syslogd -C16
  652 root      1488 S    /sbin/klogd
  654 root       872 S    /sbin/hotplug2 --override --persistent --set-rules-file
  663 root       872 S    /sbin/ubusd
  739 root         0 SW<  [loop0]
  744 root         0 SW   [jbd2/loop0-8]
  745 root         0 SW<  [ext4-dio-unwrit]
  769 root         0 SW<  [loop1]
  775 root         0 SW   [jbd2/loop1-8]
  776 root         0 SW<  [ext4-dio-unwrit]
  783 root      1472 S    /sbin/netifd
 1284 root      1640 S    hostapd -P /var/run/wifi-phy0.pid -B /var/run/hostapd-ph
 1377 root      1500 S    /sbin/watchdog -t 5 /dev/watchdog
 1496 root      1152 S    /usr/sbin/dropbear -P /var/run/dropbear.1.pid -p 22
 1507 root      1496 S    /usr/sbin/telnetd -l /bin/login.sh
 1513 root      1696 S    /usr/sbin/dbus-daemon --system
 1518 nobody    2168 S    avahi-daemon: running [ty5Etx2w_piratebox_lan.local]
 1545 nobody     952 S    /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/piratebox_dnsmasq.pid -C /
 1548 root       936 S    radvd -p /opt/piratebox/tmp/radvd.pid -C /opt/piratebox/
 1550 root       936 S    radvd -p /opt/piratebox/tmp/radvd.pid -C /opt/piratebox/
 1571 nobody    4152 S    /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /opt/piratebox/conf/lighttpd/light
 1572 nobody   15564 S    /usr/bin/php-cgi
 1595 root      1500 S    /usr/sbin/ntpd -n -p 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org -p 1.openwrt
 1596 nobody   15564 S    /usr/bin/php-cgi
 1597 root         0 SW   [flush-7:1]
 1598 root         0 SW   [flush-8:0]
 1600 root         0 SW   [flush-7:0]
 1603 root      1500 S    /bin/ash --login
 1614 root      1496 R    ps
root@ty5Etx2w:/#

So, maybe the different behavior is just a silly kernel or hardware issue in the combination with your 1043. Based from the numbers we took before, there is no r/w traffic ongoing on the USB stick.