[driverloader] wifi button

Ben Nelson lists at venom600.org
Mon Nov 24 15:45:41 EST 2003


Sometimes there is a BIOS setting to enable/disable the WiFi card.  On 
the last two laptops I've had that have built-in WiFi, this was the 
case.  You might check there.

--Ben

André Ventura Lemos wrote:
> I _think_ I have found out why my intel 2100 doesn't work.
> 
> I've installed Windows on my laptop just to test if the card worked AT
> ALL, and it didn't.
> 
> I've figured out through Intel's software that the Radio was off, and
> that I needed some 3rd party (prolly from the laptop) app to enable it,
> and so I've installed the programs that came with the laptop.
> One of them was to enable 5 hotkeys that I have, and one of them is for
> wireless, which after pressing it, turned on the wifi and everything
> worked fine.
> 
> Now the problem is that after a reboot, it gets turned off again, so I
> can't use it on Linux. Can anyone think of a way to solve this? I can
> provide with the software for Windows to enable the hotkeys if anyone
> would want to take a look into it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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