X61s wireless master switch has a life of its own
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:25 am
The master wireless switch is driving me nuts.
I don't use it at all, but every so often, it pops up "Wireless Radio is Off" followed by "Wireless Radio is On". The wifi connection (irrespective of where I am - home, work or elsewhere) actually goes off and then back on again. This flip-flop continues once every few seconds, sometimes for several minutes. Sometimes it stops in the "Off" position and then I have fiddle with the switch or even reboot (hibernate/resume also works).
The times I reboot, I get a "Program not responding" for the Wifi driver or something related. I think this is the effect, and not the cause.
I am pretty sick of this. I found some links that disables the switch permanently via a hardware hack (soldering involved) but I don't want to attempt that unless as a last resort.
Please let me know what I can do about this. The laptop is a Lenovo X61s bought in January 2009. It originally came with Vista, but I dual boot with Fedora and XP Pro (come to think of it, I have not faced this problem in Fedora - then again, due to work compulsions I spend a most of my time in XP). As far as I can tell, I am up-to-date with Microsoft and Lenovo/others software updates.
I don't use it at all, but every so often, it pops up "Wireless Radio is Off" followed by "Wireless Radio is On". The wifi connection (irrespective of where I am - home, work or elsewhere) actually goes off and then back on again. This flip-flop continues once every few seconds, sometimes for several minutes. Sometimes it stops in the "Off" position and then I have fiddle with the switch or even reboot (hibernate/resume also works).
The times I reboot, I get a "Program not responding" for the Wifi driver or something related. I think this is the effect, and not the cause.
I am pretty sick of this. I found some links that disables the switch permanently via a hardware hack (soldering involved) but I don't want to attempt that unless as a last resort.
Please let me know what I can do about this. The laptop is a Lenovo X61s bought in January 2009. It originally came with Vista, but I dual boot with Fedora and XP Pro (come to think of it, I have not faced this problem in Fedora - then again, due to work compulsions I spend a most of my time in XP). As far as I can tell, I am up-to-date with Microsoft and Lenovo/others software updates.
