[Deaf-lug] Hardy Heron and wireless

[JGJones]

OK you don't have it.

No worries...anyway you've mentioned you now see it with ndiswrapper -
do you mean it's working now? Or are you still stuck as in with your
balls frozen to an iceberg if you was to sit on one buck naked although
why you'll do this is beyond me. :)


On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:07 +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
> No hardware switch that I can see.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: JGJones <mailinglist at gwallgofi.com>
> To: deaf-lug at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 12:03:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Deaf-lug] Hardy Heron and wireless
> 
> My Dell comes with a Intel wireless (I tend to get anything that use
> Intel wireless as Intel provide open source drivers - thus it "Just
> Works")
> 
> The hardware switch is on the left hand side of the laptop - rather
> obvious to see.
> 
> If you don't spot it then you more likely don't have one.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:41 +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> > 
> > Good point.  Where is it though!  I fixed a similar problem on my daughter's laptop (Acer).  I'd have thought it won't be easy to switch off accidentally though.
> > 
> > Where is your hardware switch?
> > 
> > By the way I used ndiswrapper -l.  It shows the driver alright.
> > 
> > Paul.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: JGJones <mailinglist at gwallgofi.com>
> > To: deaf-lug at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Sent: Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 11:36:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Deaf-lug] Hardy Heron and wireless
> > 
> > Is there a hardware switch for wireless too? (My laptop could use Fn +
> > F2 as well as a hardware switch)
> > 
> > What you describe sound familiar actually, but would like to clear up
> > the above thingy first :)
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:36 +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I know I could google for this but thought I'd put this to you guys first.  And keep this EGroup thriving :-)
> > > 
> > > I upgraded to Hardy last night.  So far so good, and a pretty smooth process.  Except my wireless no longer works!!
> > > 
> > > I know the reason - the wireless mode is swtiched off on my laptop and I don't know how to switch it on.  The laptop in question is Dell Inspiron 1300.  Under Gutsy I could toggle that mode using one of the function keys (FN key + F2 key which has wireless symbol on it).  This doesn't work under Hardy.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Paul.
> > > 
> > > 
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