Asus A7U wireless problem

I have an Asus A7u notebook (athlon x2 tk-55, atheros AR5007EG wireless adapter, vista HP) and the Fn+F2 doesn't start the wi-fi. all other hotkeys work. i tried rolling back the driver for the wireless adapter (this one is from march the other one was from november or october, tried uninstalling it but vista reinstalled it minutes after, i must say as a long time xp/linux user that i'm not very comfortable with vista either) but it didn't work. Also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the hotkey driver and the wireless console2. Normally even without the Fn+F2 combination i should be able to select the wireless on from the wireless console but i can't as the wireless on option cannot be selected. Is this a hardware or a software problem ? Device manager says wireless adapter is working OK. Has anyone else experienced something like this (i ran a search but didn't find anything) ?

 

I would try the following: disable automatic driver installation from Vista (I don't know how it can be done but should be possible, google for a procedure).

Then I'd remove again the entire ATK batch (ATK driver, ATK OSD & OSD2, ATK Media), + the wireless driver and utility.

I'd go to support.asus.com and download the latest versions for Vista. And I'd install those.

 

thanks, i'll try that, i just hope it's software related because i'd hate to send it in.