I've checked the FAQ's, read the documentation, searched the heck out of Google, and called tech support from my computer manfacturer (who hung up when they found out it was a Linux ssue) - so if I've missed the blindingly obvious answer, please take pity and show me.....

Not sure if this is a hardware or networking issue, so I'm putting it here.

I'm running an Averatech 5110H laptop w/ Centrino wireless. 3.4 recognizes all the hardware and I have been able to configure it all based on all the great posts in the networking forum. I believe it will work - IF I can figure out how to get power to the wireless network card. There's some kind of setting somewhere between bios and windows that makes the wireless power down. When windows comes up, it powers the wireless back up. When I do a restart from windows to boot using the knpx CD, the wireless power stays on - until the proprietary boot screen flashes just prior to the knpx screen, and then the wireless card powers down and I don't know how to turn it back on from knpx. Can't find any boot cheatcodes to cover this one. This laptop has a proprietary button system that allows a user to manually turn on/off the wireless card; only problem is that the buttons are controlled by a program that loads at windows startup - so I can't just press the button to turn it on in knpx. There has got to be a simple answer for this, but it is hiding from me pretty well.....

If anyone has ideas, please share 'cuz I'm fresh out.....