Laptop Vista wifi fix
Karl Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 18:49:22 UTC 2009
If you own a laptop made in the past year or so by Hewlett Packard, and
want to put Ubuntu on this computer there is a major problem. HP has
written software that controls the wifi hardware, turning it on when
booting up, and off when booting down. This is the software called:
C:\Program Files\Hewlett Packard\HP Wireless Assistant\HPWAMain.EXE
You can disable this software by not starting it. You turn off the
starting by finding Control Panel >> Administration Tools >> System
Config, and then click on Startup. At the end of the list is a line that
begins HP Wireless ... and the little square in front of this has a
check mark in it. Click on the check mark and it will go away.
Since your on Vista you have wifi. Reboot to your Ubuntu and you will
see wifi now works on your Ubuntu! I have been back to Vista many times
today and it seems to normal. It gets wifi and a whole lot of updates. I
don't have Vista up much.
73 Karl
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