Wireless Networking Trouble [SOLVED]

[.46caliber]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble

Anyone care to walk me through turning off the internal WiFi so that only the PCMCIA card is used?

[vinnywright]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble

I would start by looking in you'r BIOS settings for an option to enable/disabel on bord wirless.

you can usualey get to this by repetedley hiting one of eather esc,F1,F2 or delete wile starting the box.
it will be one or the other but not a sequense

but some time's it's even more obscure and a google of you make and model# may be requierd.

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble

Nope, I am not that "Jerry".

During the first couple of seconds after you turn on your computer you can hit a key (F2 or F8 or F11) that brings up the BIOS configuration screen. On that screen you can navigate to your internal wifi and toggle it to the disabled mode. Then there is an option to leave the BIOS configuration screen and save it at the same time. I can't tell you exactly because I don't know what the name and model of your machine. If you have a manual for it you can look it up, otherwise you can search the web for a PDF of your manual, if one exists.

[.46caliber]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble

BIOS is easy enough to get to. IBM made it really easy. There is an "Access IBM" button on the laptop. Hit that while the computer is loading the bios and it prompts you as to how you want to interrupt the normal boot up.

[.46caliber]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble

Gentlemen,

Thank you all very much. My Thinkpad runs better than new, now. It's faster and infinitely more stable.

[claydoh]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble [SOLVED]

I would also look for key board functon keys for this, even in Linux this should turn off/on the device, though I can't be sure if that holds settings between boots. Plus even if the device is on, it doesn't have to be set to autoconnect

[.46caliber]

Re: Wireless Networking Trouble [SOLVED]

The keyboard shortcut still works, but when I use it, the PCMCIA card is also turned off. I have the internal WiFi turned off in BIOS. That way I can run hard-line, or my PCMCIA card, so my network can run at G instead of B.