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D610 Wifi LED-how do I know when wifi is "ON"?
I have a d610 with the dell 1350 card. I am letting windows manage my connections. When wifi is enabled and connected the wifi led light up a constant green. Lets say I have wifi enabled but it is not connected, hence no solid green wifi led, how do I know if the card is "ON"? When I am not near a network I would like to turn the card off to save battery life but I have no idea if it is on or off as windows does not give you this even when you put the mouse over the icon in the toolbar. How can this be done? I can check the dell utility but I would prefer some sort of desktop/toolbar icon that show the card is disabled.
Anyone? Thanks
Anyone? Thanks
- I'm not sure about the D-Series systems, but with the older C-Series systems, you could actually use the wired LAN leds to check the status of the wireless NIC as well. When the wireless NIC was active, it would use the leds on the wired NIC to indicate connectivity and activity as if it were actually using a wired connection.
- Thanks for your responses but I already can use the FN + F2 to turn it on and off, my issue is that lets say it is on but not connected, that means the Wifi light is not lit but it is still drawing power. I would like to see something in the system tray that shows me that it is on, I can check the dell sw and it will show wether the radio is enabled or disabled but there should be some sort of flag in the system tray....Any ideas?
zappolinom
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Posted June 7th, 2005 18:00