Turn on WiFi

[Steve Reilly]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>     I have a HP laptop called a Presario CQ50. It comes with Vista 
> installed and somehow the Windows turns on the WiFi hardware after it is 
> turned on. When I turn the Vista off it now turns the hardware off.
> 
>     Somehow I had the hardware left on because my 8.10 was able to get 
> WiFi. But today I set up Jaunty and it found the WiFi for about 30 
> minutes and then it quit. I went back to 8.10 and now it can't find WiFi 
> either.
> 

did you possibly run updates, and it screwed up your wireless driver?
use to happen to me all the time. have you tried backport modules?
search in synaptic for backports (make sure you have backports checked
in the gui first, and refresh) choose the backport modules for the
kernel your running (uname -r) reboot

>     There is a button next to the On-Off button that is red it seems 
> when the WiFi hardware is off. It turns green when you
> running. But for 6 months or more 8.10 had WiFi with a red light.

wifi light on my thinkpad has never worked in linux.  but wifi works fine.

> 
>     Any ideas from other Ubuntu users? The things I read are all about 
> WiFi hardware that is not supported.
> 
> 
> Karl
>