Turn on WiFi

[Raquel]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:36:47 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> 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.
> 
>     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 have
> Vista running. But for 6 months or more 8.10 had WiFi with a red
> light.
> 
>     Any ideas from other Ubuntu users? The things I read are all
> about WiFi hardware that is not supported.
> 
> 
> Karl
> 

I found out that all the pretty lights which work with Vista may not
work with Linux.  I recently bought a new HP G70-246US.  I removed
Vista and installed Ubuntu 8.10.  I had a whale of a time getting the
wireless to work until I got rid of Network-Manager and installed
WICD.  Now it works wonderfully!

Go to http://wicd.net/download.php and follow the instructions.  It
will remove Network-Manager for you as it installs.

I understand that WICD will come with Ubuntu 9.04.

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