From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:42:54 +1000
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] invisible home WiFi
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Mike O'Connor wrote:
> On 2010-04-04 12:58, Phil Parker wrote:
>> I have set the correct SSID, etc. as far as the XWlan configuration 
>> notebook
>> goes, but my new T43 can't find it.
>>
>> I have MAC filtering turned on and I've entered both ethernet MAC 
>> addresses,
>> just in case I got the wrong one somehow for the first try.
>>
>> The only thing I haven't seen how to set is the channel. The WiFi 
>> router is
>> using ch.1 - 2.412 GHz. How do I find out which channel(s) XWlan is 
>> searching?
>> Is there another setting somewhere to tell it to search channel 1?
>>
>> I have the T43 sitting near the AP that receives the WiFi for this 
>> machine,
>> "old faithful" for many years, so I don't think it's a "blind spot".
>>
>>    
> Hi Phil,
>
> Does your T43 have it's wireless icon illuminated. I found out with my 
> T43-2669(B77)  that the wireless was actually disabled in the BIOS - 
> or have you had the T43 previously with WiFi?
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
The T43 isn't like the T61 and has a slider switch on the front to turn 
off WiFi does it ?

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Ed

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