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I've sometimes had wireless cards not work under certain operating systems under certain conditions. If you boot up to a reliable operating system (e.g. Debian live) as a fixed point you can then quickly ascertain whether it is likely a hardware fault or something else without having to fight the barrage of software installed (wanted or not) as the primary operating system. I will often do this as, if having to work on a Windows machine, you can have booted *nix and fixed / found the source of the issue before the bloatware would have given you a login prompt.
You can also then also send debug information captured from known and trusted tools which should help to get more answers (especially from this list, rather than fault codes from Windows event viewer or similar).
Thanks, Ben On 26/01/16 13:25, Neil Winchurst wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:46:37 +0000 Ben Whorwood <ml-devcornlinuxgrp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:It can be easy for a never-used Fn+other key combination to be pressed and the person not realise. Especially if a cat or other creature has decided to take a dance on the keyboard.She does have three cats!!I would prepare a bootable live operating system as well so you can quickly rule out software configuration or driver issues.The laptop does boot up as normal, it is just the wifi not working. Neil
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