Stupid Networking Mistake (On My Part)

art artmartz at triad.rr.com
Wed Jul 29 17:38:09 UTC 2009


Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 	If the computer using wireless is a laptop I will tell you my problem.
> It seems that there is a software package in Windows that turns on the
> WiFi device. When you boot Ubuntu the WiFi devise is off and you can't
> use wireless.
Try booting into windows, and then rebooting into Ubuntu without turning 
off the laptop. See if that preserves the firmware in the device for 
Ubuntu to use it.
Art





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