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From: Mr. Shempley on 6 Mar 2005 07:32
I've got a new centrino laptop with pretty sparse, poorly translated
instructions and no wireless on/off switch. Accordingly, I've always got an
icon showing an error on Wireless Network Connection. I don't wish to use
wireless at the moment, and assume that having this service running in the
background will erode battery life. In the absence of a toggle switch which
I'm sure I've seen on most other Centrinos, how can I find out if Wireless
networking is active, and if so, turn it off.


From: Brian H¹© on 6 Mar 2005 07:45
Mr. Shempley wrote:

> I've got a new centrino laptop with pretty sparse, poorly translated
> instructions and no wireless on/off switch. Accordingly, I've always got an
> icon showing an error on Wireless Network Connection. I don't wish to use
> wireless at the moment, and assume that having this service running in the
> background will erode battery life. In the absence of a toggle switch which
> I'm sure I've seen on most other Centrinos, how can I find out if Wireless
> networking is active, and if so, turn it off.
>
>

Go to Network connections and disable.
From: JHEM on 6 Mar 2005 09:38
Barry OGrady wrote:
>
> fn - f3

That's normally for turning off the display.

Fn+F5 is most commonly used for turning off the WiFi card AFAIK.

Regards,

James


From: Pennywise on 6 Mar 2005 10:39
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:38:11 GMT, "JHEM"
<James(a)ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com> wrote:

|> Barry OGrady wrote:
|> >
|> > fn - f3
|>
|> That's normally for turning off the display.
|>
|> Fn+F5 is most commonly used for turning off the WiFi card AFAIK.
|>

Reason for the return sir?

I was trying to turn off the WiFi and it just died on me.

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From: William P.N. on 6 Mar 2005 10:39
"JHEM" <James(a)ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com> wrote:
>Barry OGrady wrote:
>> fn - f3
>Fn+F5 is most commonly used for turning off the WiFi card AFAIK.

Unless you have a Dell, in which case it's Fn-F2. In fact, it's
probably different for at least every vendor, and we don't even know
if the OP has a Fn key...

His best bet is to use the Network Connections window, and ask the
laptop vendor for assistance (BIOS settings, hotkeys, etc).

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