Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > a possibly unrelated data point... > > the offline switch on my thinkpad also disables bluetooth. Clearly > someone thinks that no RF mean no RF (well beyond the usual noise) The same happed on a HP laptop I used for a while. I think the reason is that bluetooth and wifi uses the same antenna, and off-line mode probably just powers down the low level transmitter, so both signals are turned off together. I too ran into the problem with enabling off-line mode for power savings and then not being able to use the bluetooth keyboard. -- Ren? Seindal (rene at seindal.dk) http://rene.seindal.dk/