[Jon20D]

My sister has given me her old laptop, its a medion akoya s5612, purchased from aldi a few years back. The keyboard on it is completely broken and none of the keys work. I have wiped the hdd and re-installed windows 7. I have updated all the drivers but I cannot get the wlan on. It is activated by pressing fn + f8 however I am unable to press this due to the keyboard not working. I have a usb keyboard but does not have an fn key. I have tried using virtual downloaded keyboards aswell the windows 7 easy access keyboard but that doesnt work. Also when I go to windows mobility centre the option for wireless is greyed out. I have also tried entering the bios but no options there for wlan. Anyone got any other ideas? Thanks

 

[spunk.funk]

Go to Start/Search and type devmgmt.msc right click the devmgmt icon in the search results and Run As Administrator. In the Elevated Device Manager open up Network Adapters, do you see a wifi adapter listed there? If not, and it it not listed in the Bios, this computer may not have ever had a wifi adapter.
If it does, go to Start/Search and type ncpa.cpl and press enter. If the wifi adapter is listed here you can right click it and Enable it.

 

[Jon20D]

Thank you for your reply. Yes there is a network adapter. When I try to do the second part of what you said and right click there isn't an option for enable only disable. I also was messing about with putting ubuntu on and trying to use commands do enable it but i think it needs to be turned on by hardware and the only way to do that is fn+f8 which I cant do without the keyboard

 

[spunk.funk]

Start/Search and type OSK and press enter to use the On Screen Keyboard

 

[Jon20D]

Tried that first, didn't work

 

[joeten]

I would suggest you get a replacement http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...mputers&field-keywords=Medion+laptop+keyboard
or try remapping the keys and see if you can enable the wifi then can't guarantee anything though Map Any Key to Any Key on Windows 7 / XP / Vista - How-To Geek