On 10/21/07, Josh Blacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/20/07, David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's interesting. On my X31 (great laptop) the Fn-F5 combo does > > > > > > nothing, I have read that it should operate the bluetooth adapter - I > > > have to switch it manually if it should get turned off by accident. I > > > don't have the standard wireless card though, this could account for the > > > > > > differences. > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah, you must have a slight different model of the X31, as mines doesn't have > > bluetooth. > > > > My Thinkpad R50 has both wireless and bluetooth and the Fn+F5 key is > > supposed to cycle though all the on/off possibilities for both, but with > > Ubuntu it only seems to turn the bluetooth on and off not the wireless > > (though I haven't tested this in Gutsy yet.) > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > My laptop's an old Dell Inspiron 6000, Fn+F2 in Windows switches > wireless on and off, just tried it in Ubuntu and it sent the wireless > signal strength meter (cmon, you know what I mean) down to 0% until I > pressed it again, but apparently wireless is still enabled and I don't > lose the connection - odd! > > How do I send commands to /proc to turn wireless on? > > Cheers, > > > -- > Josh Blacker >
I checked my BIOS settings and for some reason wireless was set by default to be 'off' on boot up, so I changed this. Hopefully this will cause no more problems! -- Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
