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Old 09-29-2007, 11:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Broken Wifi switch?

OK, so I decided to start working on that micro laptop tonight. Going all out, I rigged a power supply so it would fit into the plug. I managed to reload XP on it and all the drivers and software located on Fujitsu's website. There are no question marks or exclamation marks in Device Manager. However, I have two problems...

First and foremost, I can't get the wireless to work. It showed up in Device Manager and everything seems to be fine; its just like the radio or something's off. The laptop has a switch on the side for wifi, but it's limp and probably broken. The owner said it would pick up wifi previously, so something apparently got disabled or reset when I reloaded Windows... Any ideas, besides ripping the machine apart to check on the switch.

The other problem which may not be a problem is no sound. There appears to be a small speaker on the bottom, but I'm not even 100% sure it is a speaker! I'll test out the audio jacks tomorrow.
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