Anyone know of this program?

[James S]

Anyone know of a tiny little program that will activate a WiFi card when run and deactivate it when run? Like a little command line program that could run for a split second in the background? Like "wifi.exe -activate" and "wifi.exe -deactivate" ?

[Caesar]

[MZGuy]

[refractor]

[James S]

Yup, that's exactly what I was looking for, but now I have what I want to happen set up a little clumsily.

I want my computer to automatically disable my WiFi card if my computer starts up in battery mode, but if my computer starts up plugged in and docked I want WiFi enabled. Right now I'm trying to use Windows's Task Scheduler to do this and I have it automatically disable the wifi using devcon at system start up and then if it detects A/C power to reenable it. Is there a better way to do this? Maybe a batch or COM file that I can if-then? Basically, I want devcon status *APCI0003 to return to me a positive or negative value, and depending upon that value to either devcon enable/disable PCI*...WiFi*[/code]

[James S]

EDIT!

I figured out the batch file, I'll post it after I double check that it works right. BRB

Nope, nevermind, didn't work. I was hoping the device driver for the A/C supplier would deactivate when not plugged in, but it doesn't, so my approach didn't do it.

In need of ideas.

[chuck]

[James S]

[James S]

[Mike Wagstaff]

Might be possible through WMI...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... attery.asp

[James S]

Yes. Can someone compile me a little program that shoots out errorlevel codes at runtime termination that indicates battery power or A/C power? I don't have a compiler, I'm sure it would only take someone about 5 minutes to do. And then if you could post it here I'll post my BAT script and we'll have a nice little setup.

Or if you feel like making it into one nice little program that will activate WiFi when A/C mode is detected and deactivate when battery mode is detected I wouldn't stop you. Then my silly BAT wouldn't be needed.

[James S]

[Miracle]

Doesnt your Tablet have some sort of power management tool with it? My sony has it, and it allows me to set up all kinds of things (brightness when [un]docket, what devices are enabled and what not, etc.). Also, I thought most laptops/tablets nowadays have an external WiFi switch?

[James S]

mine did not.

[Miracle]