I have an HP G70 laptop that I got with Vista probably 3 years ago. I reformatted and installed Linux Mint (Julia), and everythin worked great until a couple of weeks ago. I replaced the battery with a new one, and since then I can not get wifi enabled.

This model has a button above the keyboard that is amber with wifi is off, and blue when it is on. Nothing I do seems to turn it back on. There is apparently some way to do it using Windows, but I don't have it on this computer any more.

I tried booting from a live CD to see if I could find a utility of some kind, but so far, nothing.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

The first step is to identify the wireless chipset. It could be not working because the necessary drivers are not present. Certain brands can take a little more effort than others.

This post, though it's mainly about Broadcom, starts out some diagnostics you can use to do that: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ux-4175434970/

I don't know about G70 but the G60 is touch sensitive. Just touch the light or rub it & it should be enabled.