Re: wifi on Toshiba 1800

You may have to replace the lan card; Toshiba hasn't made cards in a very long time (4 to 6 years), and the cards that they made had a lot of problems (they were actually Orinoco cards, I think, but they were the "silver" line, not the gold line, or so I have been told).


Ron S wrote:
I'm trying to get the wifi working on a Toshiba Satellite 1800. This is one that had no HD. I installed an HD and installed Win2k SP4 on it. Downloaded drivers from the web and got everything working except the wifi. I can connect to my LAN if I plug in the ethernet cable. That works fine, and I know my wifi access point is working because I can connect using my other laptops. The Toshiba Wireless LAN Client Manager sees my wireless network ok, shows a good signal, and even shows the right MAC address of the access point. All the hardware seems to be working fine. I guess this is more of a Windows networking configuration issue. I can't get Windows to connect to the network using the wifi connection. In Network and Dial-up Connections I have two entries. One is "Local Area Connection". This is the ethernet connection. This works fine. 2nd is "Local Area Connection 2" which I expect to be for the wifi. Under Device Name it says Toshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card, which does appear to be the device that LAN Client Manager is connected with. (If I disable that device in Device Manager, the signal in LAN Client Manager disappears.) but the status is always Network Cable Unplugged and I can't access the LAN or the Web or anything. What do I need to do to fix this?
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