Third time's the charm, though questions remain

[IrishAyes]

After all the agony of the evening, it finally dawned on me that although my wifi booster came with an installation program, maybe it didn't really need one!

So I tried just plugging it in the Acer Chromebook c7, and lo and behold it listed all the usual available networks.

Which is fine except that I remember the signal booster instructions saying to disable a computer's wifi before trying to use the usb signal booster because the two programs would fight. Sure enough I could not actually connect to any of the discovered networks available.

#1: Doesn't it seem logical that this should work if I can only find out now how to disable the wifi on the chromebook?

#2: Does anyone know how to disable the wifi on the C7? So far that's not info I've found, and right now my eyes are crossed, I'm exhausted, and about to scream.

[mockmonkey]

1. I find this

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"The keyboard has a Caps Lock key (usually replaced by Search on Chrome OS keyboards), and also a Fn key, the only purpose of which is to have a Wifi-Disable keypress Fn-F11"

http://www.amazon.com/review/RXDZX076KQQRB

I'm guessing that you push both the FN key located below the shift button and the F11 key.

I don't know if this helps.

[IrishAyes]

2. Wow, bless your heart!

I bet that will do the trick at last. Right now I'm on the old laptop, but as soon as I finish and switch over to the chromebook, that'll probably do the trick. Will write again and let you know for sure, but expect good news.