On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Joel Roth[off-list ref] wrote:

Vista advised me to:

1) turn on the hardware wifi switch <blush>

2) use the hotkey combination to enable wifi

It might be worth trying compat-wireless or 2.6.31-rcX.  Support
for reading the card's internal rfkill state was added in the
post-2.6.30 time-frame.

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