Connecting a wireless router

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

Thank you @Colin Law for that Fn+F11 tip, it answered my apprehensions
whether Wi-Fi for my laptop is working or not ( I rarely connect to
Wireless Networks and hence ignored related problems earlier)

Also I thank @Bill Stanley for coming up with this question in the first
place


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:

> On 02/15/2013 12:32 PM, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>
>> Try turning OFF the laptop before rebooting into Windows?
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>>
> WS=> I tried your suggestion to turn OFF the computer (I was previously
> just rebooting) and it does work.  The problem now seems to be solved.
>
>
>
>  I am happy to report that after some more digging, I was able to find
>>>> the answer to my wireless problem.  The command...
>>>>
>>>> apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> fixed the problem and I can now connect.
>>>>
>>>
>>> WS=> Well it looks like I celebrated too quickly.  I now can connect
>>> to the wireless router using Linux (which I prefer) but cannot connect
>>> using Windows.  If this was my computer, there would not be an issue,
>>> but since this is a friends computer, I would like to return to him a
>>> computer that can wirelessly connect both Windows and Linux.  It
>>> appears that the apt-get installed firmware that now interferes with
>>> windows wireless connections.  Any solutions?
>>>
>>
> Bill Stanley
>
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