Help with laptop please

[newsh]

I've revived an old Toshiba Sat pro laptop by formatting the drive and doing a new install of XP. I then had to go looking for drivers. All went pretty well considering I had no idea what I was doing ehternet is good, display and mousepad work, I'm using it right now to type this. However I still have no wireless action and I have 2 yellow ! marks in the device manager, one is a network controller and the other is an unknown device. I've tried all the relevant looking drivers on the toshiba site and I'm running out of ideas..

[Le S2 Audi]

Could it be your anti virus stopping it communicating with the router?

other thing off the top of my head - is the wireless unit in the laptop compatible with your router?

[hub]

Give the exact reference of your laptop

[Jonas_R]

Seems to me that if you have a Yellow mark by a network controller your WirelessLan card has not been installed properly. I would turn the laptop around and remove some of the plastic lids on the back. Under one of them you should find the wifi card. Then write down the name (it is 90% a intel card) then go to the intel.com or similar and download the software and driver from there. I dont like the built in WinXp software for wireless lan, but that is just me.

[Azman]

Hi dude had this poblem myself when installing windows 7. To resolve the issue you need to find the type/make of the wireless card in the lappie and get the right driver from the corresponding website or toshiba's website.

I was having a nightmare with mine until I actually installed the proper driver.

I can send you the one i got if you pm me your email addy.

Cheers

[Evilgoat76]

Do these on an almost daily basis.

The Network controller is almost certainly the wireless card.First port of call should be intel.com and try the 'intel pro/wireless 2200bg' drivers. These are the most commonly used cards in these. The tosh website is a disaster when it comes to wireless cards.

If that fails pop the cover off on the bottom and read it off the card itself. Only other real possibilities are Atheros or Broadcom. Careful where you download the drivers from and when you do download them watch the filename that you download, a lot of sires will force you to download the utterly useless Driver Detective with is also spyware laden in some cases.

The Unknown Device will be one of the following:
AC97 Modem (Normally shows as PCI Device)
Toshiba Quickstart buttons
ACPI Sleep Button

Tosh website has links for these if you serach by model number. If all else fails, fire me an email at richard at realitytech dot info and I'll email you a link to the packages as I know I have them on the server at the shop. I'll need the full model number from the bottom of the machine.

Ric

[dest]

What model is it?
I have an old Toshiba laptop that I put XP on, and have copies of all the drivers.
Have you put the correct chipset drivers on, some times they can sort unknown devices

[S2 Ant]

Quickest way i usually find to resolve unknown drivers is to look up the "Hardware ID" by looking at the device in Device Manager, going to the Details tab and on the dropdown selecting Hardware ID, there are usually several listed, i usually google the shortest and it will normally tell you what it is and what driver to find and install.

[newsh]

Cool, thanks for the replies

Sat Pro M10, model no. PS630E-G2079-EN

Hmm. Just found a sticker on the bottom PA3272U-1MPC, wi fi certified?

I installed all the wireless drivers off the Toshiba site and now have a load of programs on the thing which don't do anything

I've not done the chipset drivers as I was worried I might break it

[newsh]

chipset drivers done but no change.

Where can I get the driver for the PA3272U-1MPC wifi card? I'm worried about where I dl this stuff from.

[hub]

may be you can try this. Before delete all the drivers for wifi and may be the intel software if you have...

http://www.clubic.com/lancer-le-telechargement-7232-1-intel-pro-wireless-2915abg.html

[newsh]

may be you can try this. Before delete all the drivers for wifi and may be the intel software if you have...

http://www.clubic.com/lancer-le-tele...s-2915abg.html

It did not install, said it was wrong version of windows.. ?

[hub]

Try this one http://www.clubic.com/lancer-le-tele...s-3945abg.html

Strange about the other link... it is for Xp...

Is it an original windows XP licence?? which sp??

[newsh]

Yes, Its SP3 , laptop was originally installed with SP1 though

[Ducky]

Two drivers listed for the system here:

Toshiba Wireless Drivers Linky