Miscellaneous

The Dell QuickSet utility can help with this, but that could open other cans of worms. I've been going through the same thing, so I ended writing a winbatch script that pretty much handles it. I posted in their forum here for the community to pick through. I think Toshiba had an app that does it as well, but I can't recall. Other than that, it's really up to the software drivers you have. From what I hear, this is a native option in Vista.

Regards

Josh

Hi Josh,

We use HP kit and some of the devices do not have this support for switching at the BIOS level. I took a quick look at your code but unfortuntley it is beyond me.

I had thought that there must be an easy off the shelf software solution....

Cheers

Aidan

Aidan,

The code is mostly standard COM/WMI stuff. If you have VBScripters or any other Win32 programmers around, they might be able to take the idea and cook up something for you.

Josh

There is a Utility used on IBM/Lenovo laptops called ThinkVantage Access Connections. This utility allows the user (even non-Admin users) to create Location Profiles. There is also an option to turn on automatic location switching. When the LAN connection is in use the Wi-Fi is disabled and if LAN connection is lost then Wi-Fi becomes enabled and begins searching based on Location Profile priority. I honestly have not tried using this on non IBM/Lenovo devices but it may be the answer your looking for. It can be found at: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4ZLNJB.html