What model is your laptop? With my ThinkPad I can turn off various internal devices including the Wireless adapter. In Windows it's a checkbox to switch on and off but in Ubuntu I have to send commands to ACPI files in /proc. I believe there are several laptops that work in the same way.
Hope this helps. Tom On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 23:58 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote: > Hi guys, > > Not really asking for help as such, just flagging up something that's > bugging me. I dual-boot windows and Gutsy on my laptop, as I'm sure > many others do. Now, if I use Windows for whatever reason, and turn > off the wireless to save power, and then go back to Ubuntu, the > wireless just doesn't work, regardless of what I do in Ubuntu. I can > 'disable' and 'enable' it from the network-manager applet all I like, > but it just won't work until I reboot into Windows and turn the > wireless on there and go back to Ubuntu. > > Rant over. Anyone else experiencing this? > > -- > Josh Blacker > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
