Problem with integrated wireless card in Toshiba Satellite A15-S157

I have recently purchased two Toshiba Satellite A15-S157 model
laptops, which come with an integrated wireless card ("Toshiba
Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card"). The laptops come installed with Windows
XP Home. We wiped the laptops and installed Windows 2000 with all the
critical updates, service packs, etc. installed.

Problem is, the laptops refuse to establish a wireless connection.
The wireless cards install fine and establish connections while in
WinXP, so we know the cards themselves work fine. In Win2k however,
the cards say they are installed (i.e. "This device is working
properly" etc etc), but despite anything we have tried they will not
connect.

The router we are using is a Linksys 802.11b router. It defaults to
Channel 6 and the cards were set to Channel 1, but we have since tried
the cards and the router on both Channels 1 and 6 with no luck. The
router works fine with every other wireless card and even with these
laptops running WinXP, so we know the router is not the problem.

The drivers currently installed are provided by Agere Systems, file
version 7.62.0.390. This is the driver that Toshiba claims works with
Windows 2000. It is the exact same driver that comes with the Toshiba
driver disks for Windows XP and also on their website, so it looks
like Toshiba has possibly just renamed the XP driver and said it works
on Windows 2000.

In addition to this driver, I've tried Lucent drivers that come with
Windows XP Professional (which also run the wireless card fine in XP
but not in 2000) and also ORiNOCO Gold drivers (which totally screwed
everything up). I've even tried some suggestions for adding lines to
the system registry, but no luck there either.

Sorry for the lengthiness of this post, but I've been working on this
for the past two days and wanted to make sure I listed everything we
have tried so far. Hopefully someone out there has had this problem
before and knows how to fix it...

Yep,

Your card has the correct drivers installed, but that's not enough. Windows
2000 does not natively support WiFi. All you need to do is go to the
toshiba drivers site and download the WiFi software that is required under
Windows 2000. WinXP has native support for WiFi. Just visit
www.toshiba.com and go to Products & Services, select Portables and then on
the left hand side click Support, then choose Tech Support Center, choose
your model of laptop in the list boxes and voila, a list of all Toshiba
drivers, choose the WiFi software and install. All you have to do then is
enter the SSID and encryption key (if you use that).

HTH

"SDKat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have recently purchased two Toshiba Satellite A15-S157 model
> laptops, which come with an integrated wireless card ("Toshiba
> Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card"). The laptops come installed with Windows
> XP Home. We wiped the laptops and installed Windows 2000 with all the
> critical updates, service packs, etc. installed.
>
> Problem is, the laptops refuse to establish a wireless connection.
> The wireless cards install fine and establish connections while in
> WinXP, so we know the cards themselves work fine. In Win2k however,
> the cards say they are installed (i.e. "This device is working
> properly" etc etc), but despite anything we have tried they will not
> connect.
>
> The router we are using is a Linksys 802.11b router. It defaults to
> Channel 6 and the cards were set to Channel 1, but we have since tried
> the cards and the router on both Channels 1 and 6 with no luck. The
> router works fine with every other wireless card and even with these
> laptops running WinXP, so we know the router is not the problem.
>
> The drivers currently installed are provided by Agere Systems, file
> version 7.62.0.390. This is the driver that Toshiba claims works with
> Windows 2000. It is the exact same driver that comes with the Toshiba
> driver disks for Windows XP and also on their website, so it looks
> like Toshiba has possibly just renamed the XP driver and said it works
> on Windows 2000.
>
> In addition to this driver, I've tried Lucent drivers that come with
> Windows XP Professional (which also run the wireless card fine in XP
> but not in 2000) and also ORiNOCO Gold drivers (which totally screwed
> everything up). I've even tried some suggestions for adding lines to
> the system registry, but no luck there either.
>
> Sorry for the lengthiness of this post, but I've been working on this
> for the past two days and wanted to make sure I listed everything we
> have tried so far. Hopefully someone out there has had this problem
> before and knows how to fix it...




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