On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:47:02 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

  

Some notebooks have a physical switch for the WLAN. Look around the front lip of the machine for a slider (or perhaps around the back). I got fooled recently with an X60 (which does indeed have a hardware switch, and the Fn-F5 key sequence does nothing when this switch is turned off).
    

found it but it was IN the ON position. I have read elsewhere about the pin 13 issue with the 2200 card but it seems a shame to do. (You tape over pin 13 so that the card is 'always on.') I have to get my wife to move all her docs and such (several gigs) off to a USB drive so I can reinstall this laptop with the oem's disks and do all the software updates.  It was part of one of those 'managed' networks and I can't even change the domain name without a password. The company doesn't exist anymore, and the laptop was a part of her compensation. The docs are useful since she still works with the same brand of  software systems.