Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Havens
strange thing I figured I would turn it off and then work with your directions. Unfortunately it triggers the hard block. I was figuring I was going to have to reboot but after pressing the button it turned back on:) :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Sounds

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Brian Cluff
Sounds like your device might be getting stuck off. I had a netbook with this problem, the solution was: After pressing the wifi button and then turning it back on run: rkfill list and see if it tells you that anything is soft or hard blocked. If you see something that is soft blocked, just

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Havens
I found that if the wifi won;t turn on I can boot into backtrack5 and that turns the wifi back on. But now that I have mint13 on I just need to reboot. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, James Mcphee wrote: > I prefer hardware switches for wireless simply because I don't want to go >

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread James Mcphee
I prefer hardware switches for wireless simply because I don't want to go through the "software power" issues of before where we had to boot to windows once for each machine to turn on the card. I doubt that's an issue any longer, but it pained me greatly. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Stephen

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Stephen
there might be a bios setting. I happen to have one on my dell. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I have a compaq cq57 and am very upset with the wifi button. If I accidently > turn it off it won't turn back on unless I restart the stupid thing. Is > there a way to make it

wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Havens
I have a compaq cq57 and am very upset with the wifi button. If I accidently turn it off it won't turn back on unless I restart the stupid thing. Is there a way to make it so it is always on? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@l