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    Toggling wireless switches on Bluetooth, not 4965AGN

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by zephyrus17, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. zephyrus17

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    Even after a fresh install of Ubuntu, whenever I toggle the wireless switch at the front, the Bluetooth light comes on, not the wireless one. This also happened in my XP and Arch, so I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? It's probably bios related, since it affects multiple OSes

    EDIT: Great. Now when I toggle it, even the bluetooth switch doesn't come on. I'm very afraid that this is a hardware or *gasp* bios problem.
     
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    Aside from the lights, do the Wifi and bluetooth work for you? I have a T61p and my wifi and bluetooth work perfectly in Debian, including the blinking of the wifi and bluetooth light when data is transmitted and received. I am running the 2.6.26 kernel and it solved a lot of the wifi/bluetooth light issues. The Wifi hardware switch controls BOTH the wifi and bluetooth. That is there is no independent control of the 2 through the hardware switch. If the switch is in the on position, then both are on and vice versa.
     
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    Well, the thing is, I've experienced problems with XP as well. when I toggle it in xp, only my bluetooth will come up.

    Oddly, when I switch it, I can detect wireless networks, but the light(s) remain dark. This is in Ubuntu.
     
    zephyrus17, Oct 24, 2008
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