Re: Activate HP WiFi-Adapter in HP notebook?

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:25:21 +0000, Carsten Schneider wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a HP/Compaq NC4010 notebook with an internal WiFi adapter (W400,
> Atheros chips). Suse 10.0 recognized the adapter and installed the driver
> but unfortunately the WiFi antenna is disabled (no blue light). For
> Windows, there exists a special driver to activate the WiFi-system with a
> special button. How can I do it with Linux???
> Any help would be great! ;-)
>
This page says the wifi is supported by the madwifi project:

http://www.netsplit.com/text/nc4010.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

This text is from the first link:
"The laptop has a WiFi button that seems to unplug the aerial unless
enabled, but once you've done this once it remembers your setting after a
reboot so you don't have to switch it on and off all the time. Unlike
bdale the blue light comes on for me."

--
Douglas Mayne

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