WIFI wont turn off

hi everyone, well i recently got me the acer aspire one 532h, one thing i notice right out of the box is that the wifi wont turn off with the FN and F2 Button, i downgraded to xp home cause i did not like win7 starter i also updated the BIOS to lates bios and still the wifi wont turn off it only turn off if i go to the device manager and enter the wife card profile, this is my first netbook and this this is the problem i have please help me out...thanks

 

by the way i forgot to ask does anyone know what mouse pad this netbook comes with?

 

I have the exact same issue. I want to be able to turn wifi on and off with function F2. I installed XP Pro. On my 532h, the touchpad is the Alps.

I did install the launch manager which helps with all the other function keys except for the wifi. Any ideas?

 

i removed win7 starter and installed windows 7 ultimate and the wifi key worked after installing the launch manager... But then i upgraded my hard-drive, re-installed windows ultimate and now it doesn't work after installing the launch manager.

I'm going to mess around with it today if i have time and hopefully figure it out.

 

ok well this is messed up... as mentioned before i had installed the launch manager and the hotkey didn't work. I had installed the launch manager via the driver/application cd i made with the acer eRecovery program.

For kicks i downloaded the launch manager app from the acer website and re-installed, and upon reboot there was no change. I then installed the acer updater app to see if maybe there was an updated version the app would find, but there wasn't.

At this point i booted into ubuntu netbook remix from my thumb drive to see if the hotkey would work there (it didn't). Now i went into the bios to check the version because i recently updated it, and was going to revert back to the previous version. While i was in there i disabled D2D recovery, saved and exited.

Now upon boot-up the hotkey works properly...wtf?

I'll try and figure out what i did that fixed it but i'm confused. It did not work after re-installing the launch manager and multiple reboots, so it was either booting into linux or making a bios change and saving it.

Will report back if i can narrow it down.

 

Same here: worked perfectly under the pre-installed Windows7 Starter configuration. After formatting and installing Windows 7 Ultimate (I need some of the networking features for work) the FN+F2 thingie ain't working. All other FN combinations work fine. Anyone?

 

Hmmmm....

How come that there still is no sollution for this oddity?

C'on guys...

 

Happened the same for me. It happened after reinstalling my win 7 keeping the old files and settings. Solved uninstalling Acer ePower management utility and reinstalling it again after a reboot. Now Fn+F2 working properly.

 

There seems to be no version for the AO532? What netbook do you have and what version did you install?

 

I have the same Problem with my Acer Aspire 532h. The FN+F2 doesn't Work unter Win7 Home Premium, all other Keys works fine. Where you downloaded the Acer ePower Management Utility, and have you a Acer Aspire 532h Netbook? Please write a Download Link for this Utility , thanks

cu

 

Load the ePower Managment Utility from a other Notebook/Netbook on the Acer Homepage and install it. You need your Launcher install it. Test Version from the ePower Utility, does not install a other Version. My Netbook FN+F2 is work. This two Programms must install, then FN+F2 work.

cu

 

Read my Post above your Post, this work's.

Cu

 

I had the problem with Fn+F2 in Windows 7 ultimate too.
The problem was solved by installing "Wireless LAN_Atheros_8.0.0.259_W7x86_A" version of driver (manualy, because automatic crashes the installation process) and "LaunchManager Application 2.0.1.218". Any other drivers and SW had this problem too/