Satellite l505 wireless wont turn on Fn F4
I Have a Satelite L505 and wireless wont detect anything, diagnose it says push the power button on the wireless, the problem is, this is a soft-switch (Fn + F4) and that doesnt do anything at all! Fn F3 and others work (lighten/darken display etc), but not the wireless. Dev. manager recognizes it and is ok as far as it knows. I removed from dev. mgr and rebooted, it installed, but same issue. Tried to check bios but it has a password, dont think that is a fix anyway...
Thoughts? Any way to bypass the "softkey" to get the wireless adapter turned on? Its wired because network adapters do show it "on" as in enabled, I can disable and reenable, but Vista still thinks its off by the toggle switch..
Thoughts? Any way to bypass the "softkey" to get the wireless adapter turned on? Its wired because network adapters do show it "on" as in enabled, I can disable and reenable, but Vista still thinks its off by the toggle switch..
The manual I checked says it is (Fn + F8) that controls the wireless. Have you tried that?
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Yeah, it is fn F8, I was going from memory when posting. But yeah, Fn F8 does not work. Other Fn Keys work. I think their Vista OS is hosed (go figured) I plugged into LAN and couldnt get an IP address or anything - things started to crawl and crash...Typical Vista behavior.
I just replaced the keyboard on this unit so pretty sure f8 key works, although not sure where else I could test that the f8 is doing anything...
IF the f8 key is dead- are they really just SOL, seems like poor design to have a soft switch and that be the only way to turn it on!
Have like Toshiba's in the past, but this one is crap! Reminds me of the HP DV series...garbage!
I just replaced the keyboard on this unit so pretty sure f8 key works, although not sure where else I could test that the f8 is doing anything...
IF the f8 key is dead- are they really just SOL, seems like poor design to have a soft switch and that be the only way to turn it on!
Have like Toshiba's in the past, but this one is crap! Reminds me of the HP DV series...garbage!
It could be Vista but more likely some kind of Malware seeing that the LAN connection won't work either. I would do scans to check for that first to make sure the system is clean.
try a system restore then - as suggested !
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Any idea how I could test if the F8 key works? I can test the Fn Key, not sure any shortcuts that use F8 that I could test?
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Is that an option in win7? Dont see it
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I verified F8 works (booting up I hit f8 and could get in safe mode if I wanted to... Any other ideas?
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Ended up adding a asus wireless usb-n10 (tiny usb wifi adapter) - who knows what it was, thinking it was malfunction on the adapter itself.
that can be..
so test the keys in other applications