Turn on WiFi

[Karl F. Larsen]

Raquel wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    First WIDC does not come with 9.04 but it is easy to get with 
apt-get wicd which I did on Jaunty. It did delete the network manager 
software almost in total. I went to the web page and did everything 
indicated and WDIC tried to work but it was not able to turn on the 
laptop WiFi hardware and it does not work.


Karl


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