I found that if the wifi won;t turn on I can boot into backtrack5 and that turns the wifi back on. But now that I have mint13 on I just need to reboot.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
I prefer hardware switches for wireless simply because I don't want to go through the "software power" issues of before where we had to boot to windows once for each machine to turn on the card.  I doubt that's an issue any longer, but it pained me greatly.


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
there might be a bios setting. I happen to have one on my dell.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a compaq cq57 and am very upset with the wifi button. If I accidently
> turn it off it won't turn back on unless I restart the stupid thing. Is
> there a way to make it so it is always on?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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