Broken Wifi switch?

[The_Other_One]

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.

 

[oscaryu1]

Ripping sounds like your only choice... Some laptops can have the card removed from the bottom, so I would check that out...

 

[The_Other_One]

No such luck. Thought about that too. It seems the new wireless card in my laptop caused the button not to work anymore. I thought about putting my old card in his laptop, but it's probably not even a mini-PCI card. I mean it doesn't even use standard RAM

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I got it! I spoke with the owner and he basically said get it working using whatever means necessary. Turns out the plastic cover over the switch pops off very easilly and I could see where the switch had broken. A sharp flat-head screwdriver along with a bit of poking did the trick. I just recently shut the laptop down so it could get a good charge. I may play with it a bit more this weekend, but I thought I'd be nice and try to have it charged for the owner so he could play with it until he gets his power adapter