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    Wireless Radio Disabled, Unable to Turn it Back On

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Telophase, Jul 10, 2012.

  1. Telophase

    Telophase Notebook Enthusiast

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    I originally posted my wireless issues at the link below, but after about a month and a half of no responses, I figured I'd try a slightly different angle with a bit of new information.

    Original post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...lated-linux-dual-boot-issues.html#post8558348

    Whether Linux caused the problem or not, fixing it seems to be an HP software/driver issue. Today I tried installing a fresh Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6200, and it did nothing to improve my situation. That means hardware failure is not to blame.

    The Manual Diagnostics Tool form the Intel PROSet/Wireless Tools package tells me that my "Wireless Hardware is enabled" and that the proper driver is loaded. However, it fails at the "Radio Test" and tells me that my "Hardware radio is OFF."

    Toggling the wireless button on my keyboard does not help, HP Wireless Assistant and HP Connection Manager show no devices (and thus I cannot enable my hardware radio through them), and uninstalling/reinstalling drivers through Windows Device Manager has also made no progress.

    I've truly exhausted every potential method of solving this issue that I know of, so if anyone can help, I'd be very grateful. Thanks.

    Edit: I finally solved this problem myself. After mucking about on the Linux side of my ENVY, I became increasingly convinced that my problem was rooted deeply in some incompatibilities with the Linux drivers (why HP/Intel utilities on Windows could not right the wrong, I may never know). The strange solution: fight Linux with Linux... I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and was able to re-enable wireless from the taskbar with just one click.

    Moderators: Feel free to close/delete this thread and the original one that I linked. From the lack of responses, I don't think many others have had/will have this issue.
     
    Telophase, Jul 10, 2012
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  2. notebooko

    notebooko Notebook Consultant

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    Glad you fixed the problem! I couldn't help but wondering what HDD you were using in your optical bay. I thought no 1 TB laptop HDDs were in slim enough form factors to fit the Envy 14?
     
    notebooko, Jul 12, 2012
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