I was really tired, had been at work all day on a Sunday, booted up the Lenovo Thinkpad X60 and no wifi. I kept getting this message when I tried to enable from the wifi icon it that it was switched off in the Bios or on the wifi switch. What wifi switch I muttered. After about 10 minutes of looking in the Bios, checking drivers and swearing I had a look at the warning message again. It had a little icon on it that looked like the wifi icon on the F5 key. Slowly my brain switched on.... I looked at the top of the notebook, on the sides and finally turned it over.
There's a slider switch on the lip of the notebook. If you look down at your keyboard, in the middle of the closest edge to you is a slot which the lid clips into. If you look under the notebook in the same position, there's a slider switch. One side has the little wifi icon - the computer with the little curvy things round it. The other one doesn't have the curvy thing. If you slide it from one side to the other it enables or disables wifi. Who new...
Maybe you all knew that but I didn't.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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Thank you so much for this! Looking for that switch was starting to get to me.
IBM needs to hire you on to develop a user manual. Thanks for your hard work.
many, many thanks -- I was trying to figure our why my sister's Thinkpad suddenly wasn't detecting ANY wireless networks. after doing my supergeek thing and checking out everything possible, I did some googling and happily came across this post. who'd-a-thunk-it -- a hardware on/off switch that's obviously easily switched without knowing it. THANX!
Holy dooley!
Thanks! It works.
Voni
sMiling
Thanks heaps - did all the same stuff on my wife's thinkpad - made doubly hard as I use a Mac and had been playing with the wireless router.
thanks so much! you solved my problem..!;D
You just saved me hours of frustration. Thank you!!!
I'm having exactly this problem!
I have a ThinkPad R51, and I can't find that switch.
Do you have a photo you could post, please?
Thanks!
Sorry I don't have a photo - but on the x60 it's in the middle of the front of the notebook just below of the keyboard. On the T400 it's about 2 inches from the left hand side at the front.
Unbelievable. After 2 weeks of frustration on the road here is the quick and easy fix. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, this is wonderful. I've wasted hours on why my thinkpad suddenly lost all wireless connectivity!
Thanks a lot! I also spent hours and some headaches trying to recover the wireless capabilities of my IBM. Frustrating that there is no description in the Help section!!
I had to turn it off then back on to make it work after changing dsl modems.
woo-hoo! I knew it had to be somewhere!!
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