Wireless Internet switch gets "turned off"

Never really bothered me but if there's a fix it would be nice.

Well basically you know how on all laptops there is a on/off switch for the wireless internet. Mine gets reset to "off" each time Windows restarts. The switch is still in the "on" but basically I have to move the switch to off then on, then the light turns on and it works. It's kind of annoying but not a life breaker, though a fix would be nice.

Nothing new to my system or anything, it's actually been like this for months but never really cared till' now. Specs in sig. Thanks guys.

 

Some time your laptop bios will have options for state of you wireless card on reboot and start up

 

I haven't messed with anything in the BIOS besides stuff I know what I'm doing like rearranging boot devices. And I've never seen that in the BIOS before...I'll take a look though.

 

Have you checked for the latest WiFi drivers?

 

Yeah there's nothing there.

EDIT: atbnet, yeah, says mines the latest driver.

 

Do you ever used the wired connection on your notebook?

 

Yeah I do, a lot when I'm at home. That's what I noticed. There was a time I hardly brought my laptop out, so I left it at home with my wire in. Then I think that's when my wifi had problems; I mean just the switch. That affected it somehow?

 

I have a setting for my wireless card in device manager that is 'Disable Upon Wired Connect'. You may want to look for that.

 

Hmm where is that. I don't see it

I have a "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"

 

Right Click My Computer> Properties > Device Manager on the Left > Network Adapters > Right Click your WiFi > Properties > Advance Tab.

There are a few settings in there, you might want to browse through them and see how they are set.

 

Yeah I took a look in there, don't know what some of them mean. I'm sure there still on default settings since I've never messed with anything in there.
If anyone could tell me what they all should look like on DEFAULT, I can double check it.

 

Shucks, I was thinking maybe it was turned off when you had it plugged in. There might be some other power options, but you may not want to mess around with a lot of them if you don't know what all they do.

 

I just tried reinstalling the driver and that didn't work.

 

Its probably your drivers not loading the wifi card properly at startup

 

this guy had the exact same problem on his gateway. so its not a hardware issue with HPs or anything. it has to be some setting or maybe even a service...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=249218

 

How can I check this or fix this?

 

try reinstall the driver first.. which card do you have?

 

Already tried. Didn't work.

Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

 

Is it always like this or just started doing this recently?

If it's always like this, then it's probably your mobo/bios and you most likely can't do anything about it. Many laptops are like that, some functions just get reset after a reboot.

 

It happened probably like 2 months ago, and I didn't really care for it but now I would rather have it fixed.

 

Are you using the latest BIOS? I was reading the HP forum, some people had problems with the wireless switch and they fixed it by flashing their notebooks with the latest BIOS.

The latest version for your model should be F.2D (2008-09-12):

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=2093&product=3439353

 

Could you refer me to this topic? I remember there was a HP BIOS update but the fix was something small and insignificant, was definitely nothing about wireless. Unless there's an even newer one.

 

The model they were talking about was not the same as yours though, it was for the DV6000 and they said it's a well known issue, so I figured you may want to give it a try, plus the latest BIOS for yours is pretty new, less than 3 months old.

 

By the way, about the wireless drivers, I know this is for XP, but someone mentioned that you have uninstall it while the switch is off, and then reinstall them in a certain order?

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1218246

 

Different problem. I don't think that would help...I already reinstalled ethernet and wireless drivers.

 

Did you check the "WLAN Autoconfig" service? It should be set to "Automatic". In my sony vaio I have a software which controls the wireless switch settings. Is there one for HP?

 

Yeah I have it, and it's already set to automatic.

 

Anyone else know? Surely someone else has had this problem and found a fix.

 

Have you looked in your event logs to see if there are any error, warning, or information log entries generated at startup that relate to the wireless?

 

Just checked, don't see anything about my wireless.

 

Have you contacted _Sony support, or checked on the _Sony support forums?

 

I have an HP. lol
;x

I searched for my problem in the HP forum and didn't find anything. Maybe I should ask in there.

 

Haha that would be hilarious if you did contact Sony support and then after troubleshooting say wait a second I have an HP.

 

Whoops! Time to get that ole eyeglass prescription checked! Sorry 'bout that.

 

Even better if you got better advice than from _HP.