From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:00:39 +1000
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] invisible home WiFi
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Phil Parker wrote:
> On 04/04/2010 at 02:42 PM, "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
> wrote: >
>   
>> The T43 isn't like the T61 and has a slider switch on the front to turn  off
>> WiFi does it ?
>>     
>
> No external or internal switch that I've found.
>
> There's a row of icon lights aqlong the bottom right in the frame of the
> screen. There's a battery and a "lightening Z", both constantly on, an HDD
> activity one that flickers intermittently, a crescent (Moon I think) for
> "suspend", two that look like short houses of very fat arrows that I've never
> noticed light up except maybe during power-on -- one with "1"in it and one
> with "A" in it.
>
> At the far left of the row is what vaguely resembles a tower with "waves"
> coming off the top. If that's WiFi, it's never been on that I've seen.
>   
That's the one that should light blue (If I remember correctly from my 
old T42), If that's never come on, the driver isn't loading correctly.

You've probably said this before, but which Wifi card do you have 
installed, is it the Intel 2200BG that was in the T42 as well or a 
different one (possibly Broadcomm?).
 


> So, how does one check to be sure WiFi is turned on on a T43?
>
>   


-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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