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Hardwiring a Wifi laptop

nissanalmera

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Posted December 18, 2011 at 3:58PM

Is it possible to hardwire via ethernet cable to laptop which works fine with wifi,or do I have to disable wifi first.If so how? and how re enable? Thank you.(I have dell studio with vista)

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Strawballs

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Posted December 18, 2011 at 10:28PM

It should work by just plugging it in, but you should be able to switch of wireless by pressing the FN key plus one of the F keys that has the wireless symbol on it.

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nissanalmera

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 8:08AM

Thanks Strawballs,and if I switched wifi back on would it simply work or do I have to input passwords etc?Thanks

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mgmcc

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 8:24AM

Windows retains a "profile" for each of the wireless networks it has connected to so that, in future, it can connect to them automatically. Temporarily disabling WiFi won't affect these settings. When WiFi is enabled again, it should still connect automatically without the need to re-enter the encryption key.

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nissanalmera

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 9:40AM

Thank you both Strawballs and mgmcc for fully explaining.I can now go ahead with confidence.Thanks again

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