On most the the Acer Laptops there is a hardware switch located on the front of the laptop which has a little picture of a satellite dish next to a slider switch. The other key usually has a small icon to indicate wireless. There is usually a light next to the switch which is off, blinking or on. If it is blinking, then it is turned on, but not connected to any network.
With the slider switch, sliding it toggles the wireless card on or off. If you use the hardware switch to turn on the wireless and it doesn't come on, then it's probably the software switch which is turned off. Continue below. Look for the Intel Wireless icon in the lower right corner. It looks like waves going upward and has either white bands with a red X off , yellow bands on with no connection or green bands on with a connection.
Right-click on the Intel Wireless icon and a popup menu should appear. Looks like a monitor with a weird antenna on the left. Left-click on the Network icon and a popup menu should appear showing what network, if any, you are connected to at the top and below that, a list of available wireless networks.
When I click on the UHWireless network, the is a warning about information being visible to others, which is due to the UHWireless network not being encrypted. There is also a checkbox to connect automatically when in wireless range and a Connect button.
Click on the Connect button to connect and another windows will appears as it tries to connect to UHWireless. If the network you are connecting to has security enabled, then you should be asked to type in a key or passphrase before it will connect. Once connected, if this is the first time, you should get a window like the example to the right asking you to choose the location for the network.
Home and Work network are trusted location and are basically the same thing. The Public network is not trusted and security is tighter and some network programs might not work correctly. You should see that you are connected and the location is set to whatever you chose, which for UHWireless is Work.
Click the close button. If the Windows Mobility Center window is still up, it should show you are connected and the button for the Wireless should have changed to "Turn wireless off". You can close this window now.
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