Re: Integrated WiFi and BlueTooth have stopped functioning

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C.Joseph S. Drayton wrote:
ah wrote:

I am running Windows XP SP2

My laptop integrated WiFi has stopped working again. I get WiFi if I
insert a WiFicard but without the card I cannot see any network in
the network window. The WiFi switch is on. I tried debugging using
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html but the window when I click
Properties for Client for Microsoft Networks just shows RPC services
and no General and Alternate configuration as in the example.

In Device Manager, all 3 Network adapters are enabled. 1394 net
adaptor was disabled but I enabled it. The 2 others are intel (r)
pro/100 ve network connection and intel (r) pro/wireless 2200bg
network connection.

Same for the BlueTooth. The BlueTooth radios are not on the device
manager and I have no BlueTooth connection on my laptop, unless I
plug in my USB BlueTooth dongle (that came with a BlueTooth headset
that I stopped using). Each time I reboot, my PPC disappears from the
Bluetooth devices and I have to reconfigure it.

I hope that Paul G Tobey is still around as he already helped me so
well twice.

Did you check to make sure that the devices are turned on in the BIOS?
My dv8100cto uses a Phoenix BIOS, and if i turn them off in the BIOS,
Windows does not see them at all.

What is sytrange is that I have had the BIOS reset itself a couple of
times over the last 1.5 years. In each case, I did not figure out why
the reset occurred, but it changed my video setting in the BIOS which
was very annoying.

And my Dell laptop has a Fn+F2 that turns it off. Of course is only good till the next boot.
.

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