PC Laptops - I have an advent 7110 laptop.mother in law borrowed and now my page size is massive not all content fits on screen and h- question about PC Laptops. Advent 7110 notebook wireless problems by unogirl December 27, 2008 11:56 PM PST Well, I had no idea that there was an 'old trick' of disabling the dialup modem in device manager but I tried it.
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I just acquired an old Advent laptop as above. It's not a dinosaur dont get me wrong, so I won't be throwing it away just yet. Ive installed Ubuntu 11.04 on it and it connects fine through the ethernet hard wire. Trouble is I can't connect to the wireless. From the menu, the 'Enable Wireless' and 'Wireless Networks' options are grayed out. I run some tests as follows:
I'm lost with all this information really. One thing that is clear me thinks is that there is a missing driver or wireless network interface somewhere. Is it a common problem with older laptops? Can anyone offer some advice in laymans terms? I'd love to buy you a beer if we can fix it!