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**vinnywright** · Apr 14, 2015, 07:50 PM

from what I see viewing the specks for a Toshiba Satelite A505-S6965, ,,,,,,,,the switch is on the front left ,,,,and by frunt I meen as if the lid was closed and you were looking at it the thin way like the side of a plate

VINNY

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 14, 2015, 07:53 PM

I guess you missed the mention just below the screenprint. I will reiterate, it is a laptop, Toshiba Satelite A505-S6569 2Ghz w/8GB RAM.

What you request is not on my screen. The 'Icon' that appears like a 'desktop screen' is the Ethernet connected icon. The down arrow does not reveal what you are looking for. The reason for the screen print is to show you everything I am seeing. WiFi worked for years on this computer. It became unavailable about 6 months ago, when I lost everything in a HDD failure. When I used the Toshiba Recovery disk, it re-installed as it is now. I also have Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration. Six Windows drivers are missing there and two relate to Ethernet and WiFi.

Originally posted by vinnywright View Post

A ya .......nice screen ,,,,,,,but dose not answer the question,,,,,,,,,is it the laptop?

OK sneeky posting ,,,,,,,look for the switch

VINNY

PS on the bonox8 it is the F11 key and has a little pic of an airplane on it

**vinnywright** · Apr 14, 2015, 07:58 PM

ya I gota take a shower now .......as I sead you do have a physical switch on the front left side of the laptop,,,,,,,, close the lid and lift the front of the laptop up so you can see the thin edge ,,,on the left of the front is a on/off switch .for the wireless

VINNY

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 14, 2015, 08:17 PM

I don't understand. If you mean when I am looking at the screen, I cannot find anything that relates to WiFi. If you mean looking on the outside of the laptop, left side, there doesn't appear to be anything that relates to WiFi. Outside of the laptop is a USB port, then ventilation for the OS, then a female serial port which I connect the monitor, then the Ethernet port, then HDMI port and a couple I do not recognize then the mic and sound port. On the screen of the laptop I showed you a screenprint. I am very confused and do not think I understand your reply.

Originally posted by vinnywright View Post

from what I see viewing the specks for a Toshiba Satelite A505-S6965, ,,,,,,,,the switch is on the front left ,,,,and by frunt I meen as if the lid was closed and you were looking at it the thin way like the side of a plate

VINNY

**vinnywright** · Apr 14, 2015, 08:26 PM

http://support.toshiba.com/support/m...eeText=2351130

**vinnywright** · Apr 14, 2015, 08:36 PM

this is the front of the laptop with the lid closed ,,,,,,,,the switch on the left next to the card reader is the wifi switch

VINNY

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 14, 2015, 08:51 PM

Thank you for your patience, Vinny. I turned on the WiFi switch. A light appeared near the switch, so I suspect it is now connected. Then I restarted the computer with the Ethernet Cable unconnected, to try and get the computer to connect via WiFi. It still did not make any connection. How do I check to see if the computer recognized the WiFi?

Originally posted by vinnywright View Post

this is the front of the laptop with the lid closed ,,,,,,,,the switch on the left next to the card reader is the wifi switch

VINNY

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 14, 2015, 08:54 PM

Vinny,

Go ahead with what you need to do. I can wait another day. My laptop has not been able to connect for about 6 months, another day is OK. I really appreciate your attention. Perhaps we can continue tomorrow, my good friend. I can see we are finally making progress.

**Qqmike** · Apr 15, 2015, 05:04 AM

If you google this (WiFi switch on the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965), you get what Vinny says: wireless switch is on the front near the left end.
Like here:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Network...60/td-p/109112
and,
https://www.google.com/search?client...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Apparently, others are having this question, too. I read the Manual (well, I scanned it), and could not see a clear pic of this or mention of it, but it may be there.

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 15, 2015, 09:47 AM

When I selected the switch, it made a little light appear on the front of the laptop, which suggested I did something, but I still do not have wifi, even after restarting.

After I move the switch, what do I do next?

Originally posted by Qqmike View Post

If you google this (WiFi switch on the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965), you get what Vinny says: wireless switch is on the front near the left end.
Like here:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Network...60/td-p/109112
and,
https://www.google.com/search?client...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Apparently, others are having this question, too. I read the Manual (well, I scanned it), and could not see a clear pic of this or mention of it, but it may be there.

**vinnywright** · Apr 15, 2015, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by Shabakthanai View Post

When I selected the switch, it made a little light appear on the front of the laptop, which suggested I did something, but I still do not have wifi, even after restarting.

After I move the switch, what do I do next?

do

Code:

rfkill list

and

Code:

sudo iwlist scan

and

Code:

ifconfig -a

once more and post it please.

VINNY

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 15, 2015, 03:23 PM

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for steven:
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:33:d1:e8:93
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fed1:e893/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:412917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:195443 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:560103462 (560.1 MB) TX bytes:17295332 (17.2 MB)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6a:9c:70:d0:20:f9
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:53997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:53997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12628008 (12.6 MB) TX bytes:12628008 (12.6 MB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:65:23:99:08
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$

**vinnywright** · Apr 15, 2015, 03:40 PM

Code:

sudo rfkill unblock wlan && sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

and then post the

Code:

rfkill list

and

Code:

ifconfig -a

again

VINNY

**Shabakthanai** · Apr 15, 2015, 03:43 PM

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ sudo rfkill unblock wlan && sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[sudo] password for steven:
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:33:d1:e8:93
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fed1:e893/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1596 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:856594 (856.5 KB) TX bytes:174750 (174.7 KB)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6a:9c:70:d0:20:f9
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1639 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1639 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:323258 (323.2 KB) TX bytes:323258 (323.2 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:65:23:99:08
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$

**vinnywright** · Apr 15, 2015, 04:06 PM

sorry ,,,,,

Code:

sudo iwlist scan

and post

VINNY

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