WiFi problem

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Hi guys,

I am not much of a computer expert but I am trying to learn.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 2727 running Vista Home Basic SP1.
It is about 6 months old. I have always connected to the internet
using a wire plugged into the router.

This weekend I have been trying to make it connect using WiFi but it
says....

"Wireless capability on this computer is turned off. Turn on wireless
capability with a switch on the front or a function key
combination"....

Well there is no switch and I found that the function key combination
is supposed to be Fn + F1. When I press that, nothing happens.

I've managed to find out from the Device Manager that there is an
Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter installed. Oh and I know
that the WiFi is okay because others are connecting.

I have now discovered from the crappy Fujitsu Siemens web site that I
should have something called "Launch Manager" installed and there is a
link, but it is broken. I have searched 'Everwhere' on the computer
for anything with 'launch' in the name and not found this pesky Launch
Manager hidding anywhere.

Thank you for reading this far!

My question is this. Surely there must be another way to turn the WiFi
on and off. I really don't want to have to spend the rest of the day
re-installing all the software only to discover that it still doesn't
work and I have deleted some of my important documents in the process.

Can I turn it on using "Run"? I read something somwhere that seemed to
suggest it was possible but I couldn't understand it.

Thanks in advance.

Julie

[Lem[_2_]]

wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am not much of a computer expert but I am trying to learn.
>
> I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 2727 running Vista Home Basic SP1.
> It is about 6 months old. I have always connected to the internet
> using a wire plugged into the router.
>
> This weekend I have been trying to make it connect using WiFi but it
> says....
>
> "Wireless capability on this computer is turned off. Turn on wireless
> capability with a switch on the front or a function key
> combination"....
>
> Well there is no switch and I found that the function key combination
> is supposed to be Fn + F1. When I press that, nothing happens.
>
> I've managed to find out from the Device Manager that there is an
> Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter installed. Oh and I know
> that the WiFi is okay because others are connecting.
>
> I have now discovered from the crappy Fujitsu Siemens web site that I
> should have something called "Launch Manager" installed and there is a
> link, but it is broken. I have searched 'Everwhere' on the computer
> for anything with 'launch' in the name and not found this pesky Launch
> Manager hidding anywhere.
>
> Thank you for reading this far!
>
> My question is this. Surely there must be another way to turn the WiFi
> on and off. I really don't want to have to spend the rest of the day
> re-installing all the software only to discover that it still doesn't
> work and I have deleted some of my important documents in the process.
>
> Can I turn it on using "Run"? I read something somwhere that seemed to
> suggest it was possible but I couldn't understand it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Julie

I don't know what the "Launch Manager" is but I suspect that you
shouldn't need it to turn the radio on or off. When you say "nothing
happens" when you press F1 do you mean that the light that indicates
that the radio is on does not turn on or that you get the same error
message?

You could try looking in Device Manager "properties" for the adapter and
see if there is something there that would help, but this sounds more
like a hardware problem. Try asking in the Fujitsu forum here:
http://tinyurl.com/c6mwq4

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