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Will External/USB WIFI Help "Wifi: No Hardware Installed Issue
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<blockquote data-quote="bekkah13" data-source="post: 1661193" data-attributes="member: 353819"><p>For the last few months, my Macbook Pro (Mid-2009 model) has continuously and randomly dropped wifi. At first, simply restarting it fixed this. Eventually, I ran into the "Wifi: No Hardware Installed" Message at the top, where the wireless symbol at the top would be a solid gray with a white "X" through the middle instead of little bars. I did every suggestion I could find here and on other forums, and eventually read that the antenna for wifi was in a funky place, and I found that if (sounds weird!) I move the screen just right and hold my thumb down on the bottom corner of the left side of the screen, it gave me my signal back. This worked for a while, since my screen was starting to come apart slightly, so keeping a "chip clip"-like thing on the bottom left corner kept it from returning. Lately, nothing has been keeping this issue at bay. I rely on my laptop for work as a webmaster and website designer, so this is very frustrating to me. I was wondering if there was some way to disable the internal wifi antenna and only use an external (usb may be?) antenna for my wifi connection. I find a lot of conflicting reports on whether this works or not, and was just curious if anyone has any experience with this or advice for me! Thank You <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bekkah13, post: 1661193, member: 353819"] For the last few months, my Macbook Pro (Mid-2009 model) has continuously and randomly dropped wifi. At first, simply restarting it fixed this. Eventually, I ran into the "Wifi: No Hardware Installed" Message at the top, where the wireless symbol at the top would be a solid gray with a white "X" through the middle instead of little bars. I did every suggestion I could find here and on other forums, and eventually read that the antenna for wifi was in a funky place, and I found that if (sounds weird!) I move the screen just right and hold my thumb down on the bottom corner of the left side of the screen, it gave me my signal back. This worked for a while, since my screen was starting to come apart slightly, so keeping a "chip clip"-like thing on the bottom left corner kept it from returning. Lately, nothing has been keeping this issue at bay. I rely on my laptop for work as a webmaster and website designer, so this is very frustrating to me. I was wondering if there was some way to disable the internal wifi antenna and only use an external (usb may be?) antenna for my wifi connection. I find a lot of conflicting reports on whether this works or not, and was just curious if anyone has any experience with this or advice for me! Thank You :) [/QUOTE]
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