After finishing off one job, I got a call from another client about their internet/Lan going offline.
the standard reset the access point and restart the laptop failed to fix the issue, so I went for a visit.
The laptop was a Lenovo of some sort 4:3 screen straight laced biz model that looked like it was only weeks away from having an IBM logo instead.
The little antenna LED on the lower left of the screen showed off, I used the WLan control software to turn it on, but even though it said on, exiting and restarting the Wlan app, showed it as off again.
I had already given the laptop the once over looking for a physical flight mode switch and found nothing.
After a restart I went straight to the Wlan control and a popup msg box appeared,
“wifi switch is off, or disabled in the bios”, that didn’t show up before.
So I gave the laptop another look over, and on the lower left base was the damn wifi kill switch, near invisible at a quick glance, 5 minutes to turn a wifi switch on was a bit embarrassing, but at least the client thought it was camouflaged to much, and they had NFI how it got switched to off.
So the moral is , if you can’t find a physicall wifi off switch, look harder :) .
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