Help! All the sudden my Atheros WiFi won't power on!?!?

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dxben · #1 Post by **dxben** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:10 pm

Weirdest thing is happening to my T41p. Out of nowhere I lose my wifi connection. I reboot, and still can't connect. I hit Fn+F5 and I get a message saying that the system cannot change the power status of the wifi driver, and the wifi card is missing from the menu, only the bluetooth remains. It then says to update my drivers.

Wth is going on? I am on my desktop now. I tried disabling and then re-enabling my wifi card, and nothing has helped.

cmarti · #2 Post by **cmarti** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:15 pm

When did this happened?

If it happen yesterday try to do a system restore to sunday23. Did happen to me and that fix it.

dxben · #3 Post by **dxben** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:16 pm

cmarti wrote:When did this happened?

If it happen yesterday try to do a system restore to sunday23. Did happen to me and that fix it.

What? Why would that be? And it appears to have just happened this morning, it was working until about an hour ago.

cmarti · #4 Post by **cmarti** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:29 am

Did you try the restore?

andrey · #5 Post by **andrey** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:53 pm

I had the same thing happen to me as well. And as "cmarti' suggested, SystemRestore did the trick.

Also, if you don't want to do a System Restore, you can remove Intel Ethernet and Atheros drivers from the drive manager, reboot the laptop and you'll be back in business as well.

-- Andrey

cmarti · #6 Post by **cmarti** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:59 pm

I second that.

gunston · #7 Post by **gunston** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:20 am

yup,
system restore can do the trick to fix it most of the time
some of my friend encountered this problem, and they do the trick...
"pop"..."wifi" detected all of sudden, work regulary now

Help! All the sudden my Atheros WiFi won't power on!?!?

Help! All the sudden my Atheros WiFi won't power on!?!?

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