On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote:
> "One thing that comes up is that laptops usually have a switch, or a
> keyboard function to disable wireless. "
> I see this a lot with dell laptops.  If there is no hardware switch,
> there is often a FN+F# etc... key combination that is printed on the
> keys that will switch the wireless radio on and off.

One thing that seems to happen with my laptop is that the Network
Manager will randomly disable networking when you bring it out of
suspend or hibernate modes.  And when it first boots up, it wants a
password to open the keyring that has the wep/wpa/wpa2 password for
the detected essid.
-- 
Regards...      Todd
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