On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:34 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > I'll try keys en combination of keys of the keyboard (must be a hell > of a job to try any combination). Usually, if your computer has a hotkey sequence for killing the wireless interface, it'll be labelled on the keys (perhaps with a diagram of a wire with radiating curved lines around it - as an diagram for an antenna). It's common for there to be a dedicated switch or button, rather than using the keyboard. On some laptops, I've seen a completely unlabelled button with a light on it as the kill switch. Mine has a black slider switch, on the side, with black embossed labelling (very Douglas Adams). > Still it is weird that when I reinstall fedora 12 from DVD the > wirelss card is working, only after updating it stops working. Also > when I boot Ubunto from cd it is working. Usually the kill switch is an absolute control - it'll kill the wireless, and nothing the computer does can turn it back on. The kill switch has to be turned on again. In some cases, it's a simple as a mechanical switch that turns off the power to the wireless hardware. There's a chance that the wireless, once disabled, won't restart without some fiddling. I've had that happen, it requiring turning off, waiting half a minute, turning on, waiting, restarting the NetworkManager service, waiting, before something woke up again. Funny how computers can do millions of computations a second, but take half a minute to initialise some hardware... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
