On my old dell laptop, "Fn+F2" would turn on/off the wireless. There was also a little light on the system to tell me when I'd hit it.
I wonder if there is some key combo tripping you up? -Cameron On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just wondering if this rings a bell for anyone. I have had a couple of > instances where I went from having an internet connection to having none, > apparently without a change getting made to the computer, and apparently > indeed a problem with my laptop. > > The first time, I was online doing some work, and rebooted because I was > getting messages about resource exhaustion. This happens. I really need a > more powerful computer than I have, and often have many browser tabs open > plus photoeditors plus word processing software or whatever, so I thought > nothing of it. But I could not log on after than. Eventually determined > that the WLAN Autoconfig was set to Manual. I don't recall making this > change and since an internet connection is usually the first thing I do > when I turn the computer on, I can't imagine that I would have set it to > anything but Automatic. I did mess around considerably with the services > though before I got them working correctly, but no matter how confused I > was at the time I don't think I would have done that. > > So all is well, it's a couple of weeks later, and I send a couple of emails > just as I leave the house, so the computer's internet connection is working > then. I come back a couple of hours later and of course the internet > connection has timed out. I try to connect again and keep getting messages > that I am connected but there is no internet available. DHCP is enabled, > DNS is enabled, RPC and WLAN Autoconfig are enabled. Finally discover than > the wireless adapter is disabled. Nobody was at home with the computer > during this time. > > Maybe there's some sort of known issue with Windows Update (?) is the only > thing I can think of, but not having any success with Google. I don't seem > to have any scheduled tasks for this time of day. Any thoughts? > > The config is Windows 7 on a Toshiba netbook. Noticed when I was trying to > help Greg that there's a service pack 1 now, and downloaded it, so it was > running for incident #2 but not incident #1. I am running something very > close to factory configuration, have lots of space on the hard drive, and > Microsoft diagnostics report zero memory errors and no unusual processes. > Hijack This agrees on the lack of malware. I usually use Chrome and the > onboard wireless adapter. > > Seems worth asking. If it happens again I'll probably figure it out again, > but I'd rather not have to. Thanks for any brainpower that may get devoted > to this question > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348286 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
