Wireless connection on HP DV9000 laptop

[Karl F. Larsen]

MirJafar Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 2009/9/14 MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> [snipp]
>>>>        Your laptop sounds like it is like mine. The little light will
>> stay
>>>> orange but your wifi will work. Figure out how to remove the battery
>>>> from your laptop. Remove the battery and plugin the charger and turn on
>>>> the windows. When the little light turns blue, meaning the wifi is
>>>> working, un-plug the charger from the laptop.
>>>>
>>>>        Now put the battery back in and boot up in Ubuntu and your wifi
>>>> should
>>>> start working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 73 Karl
>>> Hello Karl,
>>>
>>> Thanks for throwing light on the mysterious way to solve the problem. I
>>> couldn't have never guessed that Wifi non-functionality is something to
>> do
>>> with batteries.
>>>
>> I believe the point of Karl's suggestion is to allow windows to enable
>> the wifi interface in the laptop, then to kill windows by powering
>> down without going through a normal shutdown, when windows may disable
>> it again.  Correct me if I am wrong Karl.
>>
>> Apparently this has worked for some, including Karl. Others have
>> suggested hibernating windows.  Of course any time you kill windows
>> without a normal shutdowndown there is the risk of disk corruption.
>> Also if you use windows you will have to repeat the exercise.
>>
>> It may be worth trying in order to determine whether this is the
>> underlying cause of your problem.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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> 
> Hello Karl,
> 
> My only concern about the proposed solution is whether plugging in/out has
> to be done everytime I need wifi on the laptop which has windows too ?
> 
> Thanks.
> Mir
> 
> 
	You need to do it every time you use windows. Never if you never use 
windows again. I never use windows.

73 Karl


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