A co-worker handed me her personal laptop and begged me to take a look at it why it wouldn’t connect to any wifi signal. “Sure! no problem.” I said and started troubleshooting it.
Wierd that this MSI S6000 laptop doesn’t have a hardware wifi switch but it does have a keystroke switch. Press FN + F10 (the antenna icon) clearly is the wifi switch.
Tap..Tap…tap…tap…tap… nothing…
Went through system restores, windows updates and did a bleeping computer combofix as well..
nothing…
tap..tap..tap… Fn + F10 … nothing.
Went online and started looking for similar problems and hopefully solutions..
Bingo!! the stupid MSI S6000 (and I guess some other models as well) were mislabled!
it was actually Fn + F8!!! OMG! Really?!!
Anyways, it did fixed the issue and the world goes on… peace!
Oh..this is where I found the fix! thanks guys!
Source: Tom’s Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28438-43-turn-wireless