On Vista turning off Wifi, was: Don't buy HP computers

[Raquel]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:47:17 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> M. Fioretti wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 05:44:34 AM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> A problem occurred that kept WiFi from working. The problem is
> >> that the wifi hardware is turned off by Vista when you stop it.
> >>     
> >
> > Karl, and all list members,
> >
> > there is one thing here which I would like to understand: are we
> > 100% sure that the behavior above is something that Vista always
> > does by default, that is a deliberate design decision by
> > Microsoft designers? Or is it something that, for any reason,
> > only happens on your own laptop, or only on all HP laptops, etc..?
> >   
>     In my laptop the Vista is given a driver software that controls
> the WiFi hardware. I know this now. HP did not tell me... :-)
> 
> Karl
> 

But Vista has absolutely no control over what happens in Linux.

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