topic Re: Recomended method for programmatically controlling Wireless radio on/off in Wireless

Recomended method for programmatically controlling Wireless radio on/off

idata — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:19:36 GMT

What is the recomended method for programmatically enabling/disabling RF for the Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, 2915ABG and 2200BG adapters on a Windows XP system.

Niklas Lepisto

Re: Recomended method for programmatically controlling Wireless radio on/off

Sachin_A_Intel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:51:38 GMT

During Intel PROSet Installation, choose WMI Provider to install.

Then, you can use WMI script to programmatically turn WiFi Radio On/Off.

Steps:

Connect to WMI using machine name and the desire namespace (in this case root\ cimv2)

Obtain a WiFi_NetworkAdapter class.

Start looping over all the instances of a WiFi_NetworkAdapter class

Call 'SetRadioState' method to set the software radio off.

Re: Recomended method for programmatically controlling Wireless radio on/off

idata — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:55:19 GMT

Steps:

Connect to WMI using machine name and the desire namespace (in this case root\ cimv2)

>Obtain a WiFi_NetworkAdapter class.

>Start looping over all the instances of a WiFi_NetworkAdapter class

>Call 'SetRadioState' method to set the software radio off.

What does this mean?

Can you explain more simply?

Can I turn on wireless radio, on my notebook Acer TravelMate 270, whit this metod?(I have pro\wireless 2200bg on my notebook but the radio button doesn't turn on the radio)

please help me

thanks

Re: Recomended method for programmatically controlling Wireless radio on/off

CarlBidwell — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:58:56 GMT

Thanks for sharing, using the WMI Provider with SetRadioState is a really neat way to control WiFi programmatically during PROSet installation.

Re: Recomended method for programmatically controlling Wireless radio on/off

AlHill — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:16:27 GMT

@CarlBidwell It makes no sense to respond to a 16-year-old thread.

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