Constantly blinking wifi indicator light

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On my Dell Latitude E6430 the wifi light/indicator is constantly flashing. It never stops.

This seems to happen only under Fedora Workstation 37 and 38. If I boot to Fedora Xfce 37 or 38 the light does not flash. It is on with no flashing, as one would expect.

In all cases the wifi seems to be functioning well.

In all cases there are 2 network connections. Wifi and Ethernet working together.

I multi-boot this machine. Fedora Workstation, Fedora Xfce, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Xubuntu, MX Linux and Ubuntu. With these distributions, using Gnome desktop, Xfce desktop and Cinnamon desktop, I do not experience the flashing wifi indicator.

The wifi adapter is the Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)

Any thoughts on how to approach diagnosing this distraction?

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Check if something is spamming the logs:
Viewing logs in Fedora :: Fedora Docs

You can try to disable Wi-Fi power saving:
How to keep internet connection connected without interruption - #4 by vgaetera

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Thank you for your response. I will try these methods right away.

The power saving option was, unfortunately, unsuccesful.

Time to view the logs.

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