Disabling wireless on A8Jm not working

Hi,

The disable wireless hotkey on my A8Jm doesn't seem to actually turn off the wireless, even though it says "wireless on" or "wireless off". I'm using the windows wireless manager-anyone have this problem and/or know how to fix it?

Using latest ATK/intel proset drivers from the Asus site and bios 210.

Thanks!

UPDATE: It seems that the Intel Proset wireless utility (not just the driver) is necessary to enable the enabling/disabling of wireless. Problem is that it comes with 4 services that together take up something like 50MB of RAM. One, the registry manager, can be disabled without apparent consequence but I'm still left with 40MB of extra stuff just to disable wireless.

 

Did it ever work? Or has it just recently stopped working?

Try pressing and holding the Wifi button and see what pops up on the screen and what happens.

If anything reinstall the drivers or use the previous drivers that have worked.

 

I don't think the wireless ever managed to get disabled, except once through the intel proset utility which I have since uninstalled.

I've reinstalled all of the drivers without any luck.

 

that's odd. i can use the wireless hot key buth both the windows wireless manager and intel proset wireless manager.

what about reinstalling the intel wireless and instead of uninstalling it, assign windows to manage wireless?

 

The hotkey only works when the proset utility is installed. There are ways to use the hotkey without the utility, looks a few posts down. It's right there.

 

thanks yan, seems the utility was the key. I only just realized that I actually have a wireless light because it started coming on.

 

The custom button they have for turning it on and off ain't gonna work unless you use the ASUS-supplied Intel drivers. You can't even patch the Intel Wireless to 10.5 to fix the security bugs they found without losing that button's functionality (at least for the WiFi part, not sure about BT). It will say it turns on and off, but then you'll start detecting wireless networks even though it says it's off...

 

im using the latest ATK and the latest intel drivers and its working perfectly fine for me

 

^^ Same here, I believe the updated ATK drivers allows you to use Intel's updated drivers now.

 

Definitely, hot key + Wireless console utility + driver will make it disable and enable the wireless function. You must remember that it works before with button's functionality, you also think what you change and install some software before the issue happen. Probably, the software screw up to make the conflict about this. After you figure it out the problem many different ways, it cannot be fixed. A perfect solution is to install a fresh Windows, all the utitlies and drivers to test. It will give you a surprise.
Cheers