Dilema about my uncles laptop I fixed - I may have done somthing silly

I am kicking myself about this.

He had a packard bell which was not picking up SSIDs or wireless traffic, so I assumed the anthena had broken.

I have since discovered the anthena can be turned off using hot keys, I supplied a USB wifi card in order to solve the problem.

I am worried that he will find out and think I am a complete pleb, what do I do?

I am beating myself about this because it was such a silly mistake to make.

 

Ask him not to put a recommendation on your web site.

 

Well I am sure nobody knows everything there is to know, laptops all have their own quirks, it was just a silly mistake, we all make them .

 

its only your uncle. tell him the truth.

if you've got it working i doubt he'll give a **** how you got there.

besides, you're his nephew.

 

I know it was just such a schoolboy error that I will look stupid. At the time I hadn't seen many modern laptops so I was totaly unaware of the switch.

I know for next time though and its all part of the learning curve. I know lot about operating systems and desktops, but I don't know much about individual laptops, I am not rich enough

 

get a grip, just tell him


I'm looking forward to a commentry on you uncles forthcomg coming problems with his car..............................................................................................

 

Will he care?

 

No but if my uncle sees this external wireless adaptor (which probably has a better range than the internal one) he will say somthing and he will probably tell him how to fix the internal one making me look like a dork.

 

well tell him yourself! as said above. get a grip mate!

you've answered most of your own questions. silly, but easy mistake, learning curve, etc...

not the end of the world is it?

 

i really don't care what you do.

I guess your uncle, should you tell him, won't see it as his own personal enron. **** it, i'm going to tell him. the **** are obvouisly F u c k - someone somewhere has the daily mail swear filter on

 

did you, or did you not solve the problem..?

 

I solved the problem, I just didn't want somebody else telling him making me look like a prick. He said the adaptor I gave him has much better reception than the built in one anyway so is perfectly happy.

 

well, don't worry about it...

 

phew

 

Amazing trade...........

I recently fell victim to another one of these new fangled laptop kompewtas, same type of thing execpt the bluetooth was failing, fortunately I stumbled upon the switches by accident for the blue tooth and wi-fi

Another booby trap I've discovered on the wi-fi voodoo is that some manufacturers have power save and applied to the card (card power and transmission power), I always step these up to full.

S

 

Yep, some drivers are pain in the kneck though, they don't allow you to adjust these settings, I find the drivers you get with cheap PCMCIA cards are often the best, they allow to adjust everything.

The linksys/belkin/netgear stuff always protects the end user from the real settings especialy with regard to routers. I find D-LINK are pretty good in this regard as they do allow you customise everything.

You can also replace the firmware on some Linksys routers too with card core third party stuff which gives you almost Cisco level customisation.