Wireless connection on HP DV9000 laptop

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 15:28:29 UTC 2009


Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/9/15 Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> MirJafar Ali wrote:
>>>> 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 ?
>>> Probably you would need that procedure every time you have used Windows.
>>> But maybe you can avoid it:
>>> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/194168>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils
>>>
>>>
>> Â  Â  Â  Â Happy Days! I figured out how to do the same thing on Vista! It is also
>> simple.
>>
>> Â  Â  Â  Â In Vista click on Control Panel and then Administrative Tools >>
>> System Configuration >> Startup >> move down to the line starting "HP
>> Wireless and click on the square box which has the checkmark in it. The
>> checkmark will disappear. Now your fixed up with both Vista and Ubuntu
>> and both have wifi.
> 
> Just out of interest what is the checkbox text?
> 
> Colin
> 
	It is not all shown Colin. What is shown is "HP Wireless ..." and that 
was enough of a clew to me. On my laptop it is the last item listed as well.

73 Karl


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