open device manager(press and hold the windows key and then the pause key.) make sure the adapter is shown under network devices with no yellow ! or red X.
Also might want to boot up into the bios and make sure all wireless setting are enabled in there
I know it's been a while since anyone had this problem (since it is such an old model), but everyone please note, Vostro 1200 do have a hard switch aside from Fn F2.
It is the 5 bright buttons above the Fn keyboard characters.
The wireless hard switch is located directly above the F8 keyboard character.
Note that if you disable via the hard switch, you can't turn it on via the Fn F2.
The hardswitch button might not be so sensitive, so press and hold there using the thickest part of your finger, around 5 seconds will do.
I hope this helps, cos it took me almost half a day to figure this out!
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open device manager(press and hold the windows key and then the pause key.) make sure the adapter is shown under network devices with no yellow ! or red X.
Also might want to boot up into the bios and make sure all wireless setting are enabled in there
vectrakl
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February 9th, 2014 19:00
I know it's been a while since anyone had this problem (since it is such an old model), but everyone please note, Vostro 1200 do have a hard switch aside from Fn F2.
It is the 5 bright buttons above the Fn keyboard characters.
The wireless hard switch is located directly above the F8 keyboard character.
Note that if you disable via the hard switch, you can't turn it on via the Fn F2.
The hardswitch button might not be so sensitive, so press and hold there using the thickest part of your finger, around 5 seconds will do.
I hope this helps, cos it took me almost half a day to figure this out!
dewabola
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July 19th, 2016 02:00
Thanks Man...!!!
It really helps a lot.... :)
I wonder why Dell made this hard switch button ..??
Well, anyway thanks again for your useful help