I have wifi running on my laptop, but I don't think I can repeat this. (I also did this ONCE about two years ago with a different version on the same laptop.) My problem is that I am not very proficient with system administration and analysis.

I would appreciate assistance in defining what I did, that is help in analyzing my configuration and log files. Also, advice on saving the configuration across reboots.

I will be happy to post outputs and configuration and describe the wooly path I followed. My problem is that I did many things (several utilities and command line) without carefully writing down each step as I did this, because after several failures I didn't expect to succeed.

I am keeping my laptop on for the rest of the week to allow people to reply.

Thanks and hope I can provide useful info to others struggling with the wi-fi on 5.3.1.

Steve