Re: Wireless and Advent 9115 laptop - make it automatic?

Yes, the radio card is turned on with Fn and F10 on the laptop
keyboard. I'm thinking it must be possible to bypass needing to do
this. This is true of my dad's Advent, and a similar thing with
Vista is needed with my Toshiba. When I boo into the latter's Ubuntu
partition (or if I se my netbook with Linux Mint on it) the wireless
network is available without any Fn and F10.

No idea in that case. It should be enabled during boot as has been the
case on every laptop I've seen.

Just had a long look through Network Center, Wireless Network
Connections and Device Manager and there's nothing there at all to
disable or enable it on boot or anything that looks like there needs
to be.

Most laptops remember the last state of the wireless. Maybe there is
something in the BIOS (Setup) to toggle this feature. By the way, all of
my Windows and Linux machines connect up to the wireless instantly even
using WPA.

Try this.
Having manually made the wireless connection, click on
Control Panel/Network Connections
In the window displayed Double click on Wireless Network Connection
You now get another window showing the connection state
Click on Properties.
In the next window click on the Wireless Networks tab.
You should see your network connection in the panel labelled Preferred
Networks.
It will probably be marked (On Demand)
Highlight it and click on Properties.
In the next window click on the Connection tab.
Tick the "Connect when this network is in range.
OK and Close your way back out.
Worked for me using Windows XP on a Toshiba Tecra with built in Wi-Fi, but
took me some time to find it!

Hope that helps
I tried to send it earlier but somehow it hasn't turned up.


Henry


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