Wireless switch orange NOT blue on dv6000

[onsitecg]

Bingo.  I had totally forgotten about the mobility center.  Thanks for the refresher course.

[Hatehperrors]

PROBLEM SOLVED: Have had off and on issues with HP Wireless Assistant not working. Tried to select Orange light on keyboard and would not change blue. Read all the forums advice and nothing worked. Finally was able to solve this by Selecting F10 upon rebooting. Once in that screen select F9 to Restore Defaults, then F10 Again to Save and Exit. The orange light turned blue once it was signed back on allowing me to get the wireless back on and back online. I realize this may not work for everyone, but try it and I hope it works for you. So frustating HP to have such an issue.

[Hatehperrors]

PROBLEM SOLVED: Have had off and on issues with HP Wireless Assistant not working. Tried to select Orange light on keyboard and would not change blue. Read all the forums advice and nothing worked. Finally was able to solve this by Selecting F10 upon rebooting. Once in that screen select F9 to Restore Defaults, then F10 Again to Save and Exit. The orange light turned blue once it was signed back on allowing me to get the wireless back on and back online. I realize this may not work for everyone, but try it and I hope it works for you. So frustating HP to have such an issue.

[martyxhp]

This just worked for me.   And this is part of a long story.

One morning my dv6000 was dead; I think a light would flash, then dead.   Took it in to get fixed and they said "must be the motherboard", and it was cheaper to buy a new one. 

More than a year later, for grins, I tried it again.

Complained about a lot of stuff, but eventually booted up fine, except for the orange-wireless-light thing, and wireless would not work, so again useless.

Years later I look and found this, which worked.

I saw a message about it installing the driver software as it came up.

From my hpux experience, I think this.   Some patching came in at night and failed horribly.   The PC was dead until something internal lost some incorrect information; I think I'd seen a message about an internal battery being discharged.

But even then it didn't see the wireless card correctly.   Doing your stuff made it forget about it completely, then when it came up again it thought it was new, then did the right thing.

With hpux you could force the system to rescan all the devices in cases like this.   I'm wondering if there is some way to do the same thing with Windows from the command prompt, if one was educated enough.

Anyway, thanks.

marty