Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.
Hi Will, +1 again on below. Just what I was going to say. However it may not just be a hard switch. I've had switches that are not a button as such. They detect your finger swiping over them. Such that is there somewhere on your laptop that has lights that you run your finger over and it will turn on/off whatever soft switch is under the plastic. The surface is smooth. You just move your finger over it to turn off/on anything under it. Run your finger around all the smooth plastic bits of the laptop. (while switched on of course ;-) Ben On 22/05/14 14:39, David wrote: +1 I've made this mistake several times On my lapdog the hardware switch is small and obscure and easy to not even realise it's there. On 22/05/14 14:37, David Lyon wrote: First thing to check is that the Wifi button is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to off without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.
sometimes its a soft switch too Fn + Fsomething (F6 as i recall seems to be the default) On 22/05/14 19:30, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Will, +1 again on below. Just what I was going to say. However it may not just be a hard switch. I've had switches that are not a button as such. They detect your finger swiping over them. Such that is there somewhere on your laptop that has lights that you run your finger over and it will turn on/off whatever soft switch is under the plastic. The surface is smooth. You just move your finger over it to turn off/on anything under it. Run your finger around all the smooth plastic bits of the laptop. (while switched on of course ;-) Ben On 22/05/14 14:39, David wrote: +1 I've made this mistake several times On my lapdog the hardware switch is small and obscure and easy to not even realise it's there. On 22/05/14 14:37, David Lyon wrote: First thing to check is that the Wifi button is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to off without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.
Hi William, I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. I have had this problem recently on an old HP laptop. On this laptop there is a switch which is electronic not mechanical. Try as I might in Linux, I could not get the wireless to switch on yet in Windows XP it was fine. Turns out that the wireless card software in Windows was able to permanently turn the wireless off so I had to reset it there. After that, it is always fine in Linux (Fedora 20). So you might have to look hard at the software in Windows for the solution to your problem. Happy hunting. Regards, Rick Phillips -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] WiFi problem.
I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.
First thing to check is that the Wifi button is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to off without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.
+1 I've made this mistake several times On my lapdog the hardware switch is small and obscure and easy to not even realise it's there. On 22/05/14 14:37, David Lyon wrote: First thing to check is that the Wifi button is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to off without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
