chesspupil

further background: There are about six differnt sites that I know of that look for answers to this, one of them tried to make a VBS script (Not universal) at startup and others did the same thing with java. (pressing FN + F2) That soulution did work for those that only had the problem at startup. Further the Bios on my SYX H36Y has very very little, and nothing about wireless or ethernet in it. What I have found is rather than a workaround, with restoring the HOTKEY driver back to factory, the problem goes away and in fact if you still had the script, or java running you would be turning off the wireless that the driver is by default leaving on once installed.

SOLUTION! (at least for me on my win7 laptop) I just had this problem when I reinstalled the OS from the OEM disc (not the factory install disc) I figured the OEM disc had a driver conflict. And I even tried updating the latest Wireless driver. But I incorrectly pointed the finger at the wireless lan driver. The HOT KEY strip (the one with the buttons that turn white when you touch them just above the keyboard) on my laptop also controls the Wi-Fi Radio on/off button. This was the problem. You need the original driver for that strip, even if your volume on the strip is working. Background. Think of your wireless lan as two seperate devices... the radio is compared to the cord of an ethernet connection. The wireless lan card is the ethernet card. When you think about it as one device it is easy to see why so many people assume the problem is with the wireless lan card. But the important part is that a laptop usually divides the two up to save power. Controlling the radio from a button on the keyboard (or a function key) (mine is FN +F2) is another reason to think of the two as seperate items. Before reaching this conclusion I tried using "allow the computer to turn this device off to save power" I also had tried High performance power option modes and other wireless radio from the control pannel in both plug-in and battery modes. I tried the turn wireless netork on and off as well. There were plenty of reasons to think this was going to fix the problem. I aloos tried going with the above script but found that "WisWBSet.exe" was missing from windows 7. I also tried a Java script but could nto find the key code for the FN button, nor the combination of the FN button (hold) and the F2 key combo. So update your HOTkey strip driver... see if that doesnt fix your problem.