On 09/26/06 08:18 am, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote :

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.

  

Hmmm... At this point, I'm stumped. As a test, you could try insulating pin 13. That said, this may indeed be entirely software related. Is there an indicator light anywhere on the panel which turns on and off with the WLAN power?

Of course, if you wee coming up next month, we could look at it in the workshop... (hint, hint). ;-)