by Ray_of_Light » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:36 am
I bought, few days ago, an Amilo La1703 with Vista Basic - and I face the same problem with Wi-Fi.
Out of the box, the Wi-Fi on the La1703 wasn't working: the connection was dropping continously during file transfers, unless it was at less than one meter of distance from the Wi-Fi router.
After the Wi-Fi card driver upgrade, the behavior of the PC normalized.
Nonetheless, everytime I boot the PC I have to press Fn + F2 to turn on the Wi-Fi, and then go to the Control Panel to activate the wireless function.
Those are two unnecessary steps that renders my La1703 disfunctional.
I have seen many different Wi-Fi laptops of different brands, and this is the first time I encounter such an unwelcome "feature".
I tried to write some keyboard macro with "Autohotkey", but I had problems, since the mapping of the Fn button, and its toggle function.
Fujitsu-Siemens specifically indicates in their F.A.Q. that the Wi-Fi function has to be enabled at every boot-up.
In my humble opinion, this is unacceptable. They could modify the BIOS or write a small software for MS Vista (which would be better and less risky for the user), in order to permanently enable Wi-Fi at boot-up, as it is common in the vast majority of today's laptop.
I hope somebody from Fujitsu-Siemens is reading this...
Regards
Antonio