Toshiba Wireless seetup

[RSUDHAKAR]

Hi
I have a Toshiba Protege laptop, and it had the Mini PCI slot available, so bought mini PCI card from Toshiba dealer, and installed it...I have got only the cards alone shipped to me, not any manual, or driver CD/Floppies...I downloaded the driver from Toshiba site, and installed it...I have Local Area connection 2 created for the new wireless adpater...and I have Wireless client manager installed, and could see the excellent signal, could able to communicate to my Microsoft wireless router...But from command prompt, If i type, ipconfig, it says Local Area Connection 2 Media State: Cable Disconnected....I tried, uninstalling TCP/IP also, no luck..Could you please help me resolve this...Thanks

 

[RSUDHAKAR]

Can I use the same Mini PCI Wireless card I bought from Toshiba, in any other branded laptops, like DELL's Mini PCI Slot?. Toshiba's wireless LAN card will work with DELL laptops? if we install it with proper drivers?..If someone knows, let me know. Thanks

 

[wooglin]

Are you talking about the 'internal' wireless card that you pop in the bottom and attach the two antenna wires?

 

[RSUDHAKAR]

Yes, I am talking about the MiniPCI internal wireless card.
Sorry if I got you confused!

 

[wooglin]

Sorry, can't help you. My card came with a ton of documentation, no CD or drivers. When installed WinXP recognized it automatically and found the toshiba drivers online automatically.

It basically installed set up to the standard 802.11b defaults.

One trick I've found with the access point, is to configure it for long preamble and disable any transmission rates over 11mbps. (as it is only a 'b' card)

Did you make sure the antenna wires were connected correctly? The card access port has a small note [WHITE->] telling you which post to connect the white wire to, the other wire goes on the opposite point.

I can't speak to how it would work in other laptops. I would think that any PCI is a standard design, but haven't had opportunity to try it out.

 

[bcastner]

Do not forget the little button with a blue icon under the display.

(I have a site were I placed 20 of these guys, and several times a week I get a service call. 'Please', push the far left button underneath the display that glows blue.)

As it is a fairly well known issue, I apologize in advance if this is something you do not know about that adapter. Disable the 'adapter bonding' feature.

The Intel web site has the drivers you need for that mini-PCI card.

 

[wooglin]

Is that little button the same as the on-off switch for the wireless that I have on the side of my Satellite? Nothing on my setup glows blue...