Switching Radio on (wirelesss/Asus laptop)

[diyfiesta]

Hi All,

I've been trying to get wireless working on my Asus A6Km laptop, I've setup ndiswrapper and now think is should all work.

dmesg tells me the radio is off though and I can't figure out how to switch it on!

Fn+2 doesn't seem to do anything, and I've tried acer_acpi which tells me that I don't have an Acer BIOS so it can't communicate with it - it don't work. I thought it theory is should work as its the same device as some acers?

Any ideas what I can do to switch the radio on, on my Asus A6Km laptop?

Cheers,
Toby

FYI

00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
PCIID: 14e4:4318

[diyfiesta]

... any ideas... anyone?

Asus seems to be really tough, I should've gone for an Acer ...

[ChuckDo]

I would guess in the bios, ususally in the advanced settings there is a switch that sets the radio on or off. That is the way my emachine works.

[diyfiesta]

Thanks, I had a look and couldn't see it but thanks all the same

[Alukardian]

Is there a special fuction (fn) key combo you need to activate it. That is how I have to activate mine.