HP G60-120us atheros wireless card off by default

After a recent hard drive replacement, I disconnected my bios battery. Every since my wireless card is off by default. I have to manually press the button to get it to turn on. I updated the bios, installed all recent drivers and even tried a fresh install of Windows 7 x64. I can't find any related settings in the bios, or in the adapter properties. Please help it is really starting to drive me crazy.
Here are the details of my setup:
HP G60-120us
Windows 7 x64 ultimate
Atheros 5009
Thanks in advance!

Just something that MAY be related...
excerpt from Kernel Changelog for 2.6.27.3:
commit f76f2408cccf448917c8a2a2b775571fd60aee30
Author: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Oct 16 19:05:12 2008 +0000
ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace
commit 4233df6b748193d45f79fb7448991a473061a65d upstream
[b]As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation
is enabled.[/b] This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by
not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue.
The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver
operation to userspace.
That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm
it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw
fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Since you're using the same card....thought i'd let you know
Last edited by TjPhysicist (2008-10-23 01:55:03)

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Just something that MAY be related...
excerpt from Kernel Changelog for 2.6.27.3:
commit f76f2408cccf448917c8a2a2b775571fd60aee30
Author: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Oct 16 19:05:12 2008 +0000
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[b]As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation
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Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Since you're using the same card....thought i'd let you know
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just to agree you are not alone with that problem
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disregard all suggestions to reinstall all software in the 'right order'
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