Acer Aspire 4520 WiFi button

[Karl Larsen]

Colin Brace wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
>   
>> I've got the same laptop.  The button turns the wifi on and off in
>> Windows and is tied in to the Acer Empowerment software crap you have
>> to run on it to make the hardware work right.  I've look in the Acer
>> Aspire 4520 BIOS and there is nothing for turning on the wifi adapter,
>> its done by software.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks, Michael. I guess I am screwed. If I hadn't deleted Vista, I could
> sell the notebook to a Windows user. 
>
> I am disappointed in Acer. I thought the company was gradually becoming more
> Linux-friendly. 
>
>
>
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>   Colin Brace
>   Amsterdam
>   http://lim.nl
>   
    Hi Colin look in your little book and see if you can't re-load Vista 
from a partition on your hard drive. My Compaq has that and it worked 
great. I deleted Vista and then re-loaded.

Karl


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