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    Bluetooth and wifi toggles

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by scytharian, Sep 6, 2010.

  1. scytharian

    scytharian Notebook Guru

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    I have an m11xR1 and found it interesting that the wireless toggle turns both the wifi and bluetooth on at the same time. Had an asus notebook before and it turns them on seperately. Is there any suggestion that the next drivers will have the feature of having:

    Wifi on
    Bluetooth on
    Wifi and Bluetooth on
    Wifi and bluetooth on

    in the wireless toggles?
     
    scytharian, Sep 6, 2010
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  2. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    Most likely not. The toggle is for the radios (WiFi, Bluetooth, and WWAN) to be on/off. There is no way to toggle individually.

    If you want to toggle individually, then disable / enable the devices in Windows Control Panel --> Device Manager.
     
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  3. slickie88

    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    I still find their all-or-nothing approach to radio management rather shocking. In the past 10 years this is the first notebook I've owned where I haven't been able to either cycle through various states and combos with one FN key or had manual switches.
     
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