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    Toughbook Drivers & Manuals

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by toughasnails, May 1, 2015.

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    toughasnails, May 1, 2015
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    After searching all over the place for (currently active) Panasonic driver download sites, I have found the following two FTP sites are working:
    ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/computer/software/
    and
    http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/2/ftp.panasonic.com/computer/software/
    Both appear to contain the same information, but displayed differently. Their contents include "bundled" driver packages for some Panasonic / ToughBook computer variants. (Bundles are a convenient download, but use them at your own risk as contents may / may not exactly match your particular machine's configuration.)
    The Canadian web site for drivers can currently be found at: http://panasonic.ca/english/support/sandd/softwareQuery.asp
    As mentioned by "toughasnails" in the post above, the Japanese web site (in English language) for ToughBook / ToughPad support is at: http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/search?q=&button=&dc[]=002001&p1=111&p2=1110375&oc=001020&lang=002 The Japanese site is the most detailed of all, containing individual drivers (overwhelmingly so), User Manuals and lots more.
    A number of Service Manuals can be found at: http://tim.id.au/laptops/panasonic
    All of the above web sites were active as at 04 May 2015.
    Perhaps a moderator could update "Captain Dogfish's" post (sticky?) named "Toughbook Drivers and Manuals Sources" . That post's status is not open for further replies, so I can't post this info there.
     
    techdev, May 4, 2015
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    Welcome to the Panasonic Toughbook Forum

    This one will not work but my guess it is because you need the password. If I have some time I will look it up and fix the link.

    I will fix the links but am waiting to see what happens with Panasonic's web site first. This has happened before.
     
    toughasnails, May 4, 2015
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    toughasnails, May 6, 2015
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