Fujitsu LifeBook Atheros Wireless Lan ceased functioning

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My neighbor has a Lifebook P Series 5020D. Everything was running well with it when we set it all up this summer, but
recently he is no longer able to connect to his wireless network, or any wireless for that matter. It never finds a
network, even though we know one exists and I can connect to his or my network with no problems.

We have looked at his wireless connection, and it is all correct, his device manager settings say all is go. There is
nothing in the BIOS that says you can turn off the card. So how do I tell if the onboard ATHEROS wireless is in deed
dead, or if something else changed in the machine that prevents him from connecting wirelessly anymore.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any pointers or help.

Skip Hollowell

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I'm not trying to be a smart aleck, but have you tried the push button on
the left of the on-off switch? I have a 5010D and I have a button to turn
the wi-fi card off if I'm not using it. I hope that's all it is.
Good luck!

--
Ken Wolf
kwolf8380@comcast.net
"Thomas 'Skip' Hollowell" <skip_hollowellABC@ABCwideopenwest.com> wrote in
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> My neighbor has a Lifebook P Series 5020D. Everything was running well
> with it when we set it all up this summer, but recently he is no longer
> able to connect to his wireless network, or any wireless for that matter.
> It never finds a network, even though we know one exists and I can connect
> to his or my network with no problems.
>
> We have looked at his wireless connection, and it is all correct, his
> device manager settings say all is go. There is nothing in the BIOS that
> says you can turn off the card. So how do I tell if the onboard ATHEROS
> wireless is in deed dead, or if something else changed in the machine that
> prevents him from connecting wirelessly anymore.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for any pointers or help.
>
> Skip Hollowell

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Skip;
Glad that you found the "problem" and fixed it:-)

--
Ken Wolf
kwolf8380@comcast.net
"Thomas 'Skip' Hollowell" <skip_hollowellABC@ABCwideopenwest.com> wrote in
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> Ken Wolf wrote:
>> I'm not trying to be a smart aleck, but have you tried the push button on
>> the left of the on-off switch? I have a 5010D and I have a button to turn
>> the wi-fi card off if I'm not using it. I hope that's all it is.
>> Good luck!
>>
>
> Not a smart aleck at all. Once I got the model number from my neighbor, I
> hit the support site and downloaded the *gasp* owner's manual, and found
> that little gem on page 55. Told him about it, and voila. Guess his
> statment of "I didn't do anything..." was not 100% true, now was it?
>
> Thanks for the post.
>
> Skip

I also want to thank this post!!
After a year of using an USB add on adapter, I decided to look up whether I should put in a different internal wireless card and came across this post.
Another lesson to read the manual.

The confusing thing for me was that the adapter shows up as working normally in the device amanger etc, so it seesm counter-intiuitive that there would be a switch that actually enables looking for wireless networks.

JJ[



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Ken Wolf wrote:
> I'm not trying to be a smart aleck, but have you tried the push button on
> the left of the on-off switch? I have a 5010D and I have a button to turn
> the wi-fi card off if I'm not using it. I hope that's all it is.
> Good luck!
>

Not a smart aleck at all. Once I got the model number from my neighbor, I hit the support site and downloaded the
*gasp* owner's manual, and found that little gem on page 55. Told him about it, and voila. Guess his statment of "I
didn't do anything..." was not 100% true, now was it?

Thanks for the post.

Skip[/quotemsg]