Question

Help! Wireless is diabled by hardware switch - ubtuntu!

Answer 1

oh I see go to dash type additional drivers or better go to ask ubuntu

Answer 2

U have a button somewhere..?

Answer 3

i switched that on.

Answer 4

On y machine is at top left next to bluetooth etc...

Answer 5

i have the button, i even tried that turning that ON & OFF.

Answer 6

screenshot shows wireless signal in top bar....

Answer 7

same problem happened with my brother's latop best solution is to go to ask ubuntu they are pretty good at fixing problems


try the additional driver too

Answer 8

What is an ubuntu?

Answer 9

here u go E-shan!

Answer 10

its an Operating System xD

Answer 11

Its similar to Windows but a new program..Its really advanced..just takes a little bit of space on your computer.. ;) check out the site if your interested ;)

Answer 12

This is ubuntu.
Most Beautiful system

Answer 13

Haha you lured me into installing it by showing snapshots similar to this :P

Answer 14

Saifoo....you doing okay?

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BTW thank you Ishaan :)

Answer 16

This Rules.

Answer 17

What does? Hey! What did I do to get a medal???? You're being redonkulous Saifoo.....

Answer 18

*Grrrr face

Answer 19

saif what laptop is that ?

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HP 540

Answer 21

http://askubuntu.com/search?q=my+latop+is+not+detecting+wi+fi+

Answer 22

Ishaan I gave you a medal because you look good in pink Lol

Answer 23

http://askubuntu.com/search?q=wireless+is+disabled+by+hardware+switch&submit=search

Answer 24

thanks Jessica

Answer 25

Saifoo....I hate you your dp even dances here....I'm so jealous...Lol...

Answer 26

HAHA.

Answer 27

Bwahahahahahhhahahaha!!!!!!!!!
*You got PWNED*

Answer 28

Ishaan is pyaar!!!!!

Answer 29

mine is HP too but no propiertry drivers

Answer 30

http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?h_pagetype=s-006&h_lang=en&h_cc=us&h_product=top&h_page=hpcom&h_client=test

Answer 31

Wth? Saifoo?

Answer 32

saif you must have the drivers disk the auto repair one try installing the driver from that

Answer 33

Ok. 12:26 AM. Bye you guys x) Have a nice day!!! xD See you hopefully 2morrow!!!

Answer 34

NO, i dont have any disk now. i have the .exe file from HP Online.

Answer 35

ah .exe okay you need wine for that you can run .exe after installing wine from ubuntu software center

Answer 36

im trying uninstalling then installing again.

Answer 37

you have the wine installed no need to do again try running the file

Answer 38

yup but maybe reinstalling won't help

Answer 39

there are some files tha wine can't support

Answer 40

hmm . =(

Answer 41

Now it says, DEVICE not Ready.

Answer 42

lol
okay did you try clicking on the brodcom sta ...in addtional drivers

Answer 43

nevermind it says the ubuntu developers can't do a thin about propiertry srivers source code

Answer 44

Im Rebooting.

Answer 45

okay

Answer 46

http://askubuntu.com/questions/6479/no-wifi-on-hp-netbook-2133

Answer 47

classic ubuntu