Wifi wont turn on.

[Creepynazgul]

A few days ago I accidentally hit the Wifi key on my laptop when I meant to hit the prt sc key. This, of course, turned the wifi off. I tried pressing the key again but it doesn't work, all it does is turn on/off airplane mode. I tried searching other places but couldn't find anything. My computer is a HP ENVY m6 with windows 8.

 

[BellaBeauty]

hi ... i was facing the same problem and found a simple solution..

Right Click My Computer, select Properties, click Device Manager, click Network Adapters, right click the Ralink Wi-Fi adapter, click enable..
Then Restart your laptop. You network adapter will be enabled and it would work just fine ...

Hope this helps

U are amazing. God bless u and thank you. My adapter had a different name but ur suggestion worked the same!!!

 

[Andy Elson]

A few days ago I accidentally hit the Wifi key on my laptop when I meant to hit the prt sc key. This, of course, turned the wifi off. I tried pressing the key again but it doesn't work, all it does is turn on/off airplane mode. I tried searching other places but couldn't find anything. My computer is a HP ENVY m6 with windows 8.

 

[teo_1_]

"Airplane mode on" means the wifi is active, that's what this mode does, it turns radio transmissions to and from the computer on and off.
Your wifi will work if Airplane mode is on ..... there must be another reason your wifi isn't working.

Hello, a few days ago I accidently hit the wifi key on my laptop when I ment to hit the prt sc key which of course turned the wifi off. I tried pressing the key again but it doesn't work, all it does is turn on/off the airplane mode. I tried searching other places but couldn't find anything. My computer is a HP ENVY m6 with windows 8.

Go to settings, PC settings, wireless. For some reason the alternating between the two stop work but the airplane mode continues to work.

 

[Satyanarayana_2]

Hello, a few days ago I accidently hit the wifi key on my laptop when I ment to hit the prt sc key which of course turned the wifi off. I tried pressing the key again but it doesn't work, all it does is turn on/off the airplane mode. I tried searching other places but couldn't find anything. My computer is a HP ENVY m6 with windows 8.

Go to settings, PC settings, wireless. For some reason the alternating between the two stop work but the airplane mode continues to work.

 

[Ansong]

"Airplane mode on" means the wifi is active, that's what this mode does, it turns radio transmissions to and from the computer on and off.
Your wifi will work if Airplane mode is on ..... there must be another reason your wifi isn't working.

 

[rome1212]

Press Function key on your laptop keyboard + wifi button.

 

[Darnellwesson]

Metro pcs wifi won't work

 

[diapolical]

I just noticed that I said here ""Airplane mode on" means the wifi is active, that's what this mode does, it turns radio transmissions to and from the computer on and off. Your wifi will work if Airplane mode is on ..... there must be another reason your wifi isn't working."

But that is not true. When Airplane mode is ON your wifi is switched OFF. This is how it is supposed to be.
Sorry if I caused any confusion.

 

[S Mahesh]

A few days ago I accidentally hit the Wifi key on my laptop when I meant to hit the prt sc key. This, of course, turned the wifi off. I tried pressing the key again but it doesn't work, all it does is turn on/off airplane mode. I tried searching other places but couldn't find anything. My computer is a HP ENVY m6 with windows 8.

 

[Junebug21]

Go to hardware devices and open the drop down tab on network adaptor, right click on the wireless device and select properties. Click the power management tab and uncheck "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" wifi should enable automatically.

Hope this helps.

This is what finally worked for me. Thank you!!

 

[golaka900]

A few days ago I accidentally hit the Wifi key on my laptop when I meant to hit the prt sc key. This, of course, turned the wifi off. I tried pressing the key again but it doesn't work, all it does is turn on/off airplane mode. I tried searching other places but couldn't find anything. My computer is a HP ENVY m6 with windows 8.