Thank you,

Still did not turn the Wireless connection on.

I downloded:

Version V10.5.1.68 2006/10/27 update

Description Wireless Lan Driver and Application Wireless Lan Driver and Application WinXP

Is this what i should have downloaded??

I insalled the utility but it did nothing.

i also tried Fn + F2 to no avail..

Thank you for your help although case is closed and my issue has resolved.

Note to anybody who has the same problem.. try uninstal the driver and simply reboot your machine.

works a gem..

I would strongly recommend against using the Asus wireless manager, it's rubbish!  Uninstall your wireless drivers and the management software, reboot and reinstall just the drivers for the wireless card and then let Windows manage the connection from there.

Fn+F2 will still turn your wirless card on and off and Windows will do a much better job of maintaining your connection.