Modag/Verhoog,
dank voor jullie reaktie:
in apparaatbeheer zijn helemaal geen gele waarschuwingen, alles is in orde.
Ik heb de nieuwste drivers en er zit GEEN aan-uit knop op deze laptop.
Ik heb hier iets gevonden, wat ik zal uitvoeren.
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Here is what is wrong with the thing :
The Medion MD 96350 has a wireless kill switch which, when on, has the wireless card turned off. Laptops usually have the kill switch readily available as a push-button somewhere on the chassis, NOT the MD 96350, nooo nooo it's SPECIAL. This particular laptop has some kind of fancy Ipod-like multimedia pad (they're like buttons with play, stop, backward and forward buttons, and, you guessed it, the wireless kill switch. This would have been all nice and dandy if they just worked which they don't (drivers are very esoteric and not available for linux). BIOS was a joke since wireless lan it had two options : "Disabled" and "Last state" (which also was, yes, disabled) So basically the multimedia pad was holding my wireless hostage.
I tried the acerhk package to no avail, modprobed anything with asus in it to see if the panel would lit up, which it didn't.
So the solution to this problem is as follows :
- Temporarily sell your soul and install Vista which came with the laptop (don't worry, you'll get the option of getting it back in the end).
- In Vista : Install the "Multimedia panel" and "Launch Manager"-drivers from the device driver cd which came with the laptop. (Launch Manager is the most important as that's what activates the craved wireless-switch).
- In Vista : Un-block your wireless with your newly-aquired kill/revive wireless switch. It should light up and give of some sound if it works.
- Don't touch the switch again if it's on.
- Reboot and eliminate Vista, reclaim your soul, you got wireless in Ubuntu now.
Again, this is very specific to the MD 96350, but I guess the same problem could be thought possible on other laptops, so here's the run-down of the general tactic :
You got no wireless, and it's because the kill switch is on. You got no access to the kill switch as the button to the switch requires windows drivers. Solution : install windows, install the drivers, turn on the wireless, problem solved.
It seems really trivial in retrospect, but the weird sense of having the wireless card "right there in front of me installed and detected", had me spending many nights on irc, forums and whatnot searching for a solution, don't let it happen to you
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Re: How-to : Enabling wireless on a Medion MD 96350
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I couldn't believe it but it works!
Thank you very much for this useful hint.
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Ik heb Vista niet opnieuw geïnstalleerd, ik probeerde het eerst zo, ik wekte reeds met Vista , ..... daana de Touchpad driver geïnstalleerd, computer onieuw opgestart, Launchmanager driver geïnstalleerd en JAWEL:thumb::thumb::thumb:, het rode lampje begon vanzelf te branden rechts naast de aan/uitknop, daarna opnieuw opgestart.
Dus probleem ogelost.
Prettige avond verder,
mvg
Pierre
