A135 not seeing any network with replacement wireless NIC

I have a Toshiba A135-4656 running Win7. It works fine with the stock 802.11G card. I am trying to get 802.11n into it.
I purchased a Gigabyte mini-PCI-E card from geeks ( http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GN-WS32L-RH-BULK), installed it. Win7 located drivers on its own.

Then I couldn't get any network to be seen (yes, I connected the antennae; yes the switch on the front is on). Tried updated drivers from Gigabyte, no go. Win7's wireless scan finds nothing. The Gigabyte utility shows "disconnected". The LED on the front of the laptop is dark (the stock card worked and had the LED on). Fn-F5 (the Wireless control) does nothing (but it also does nothing with the original Toshiba card).

I moved the card to a Thinkpad T60 (BIOS hacked to allow any network card), works fine. Sees a half dozen networks in my area.

Is there some provision in the Toshiba that prevents a "foreign" NIC from working? I saw nothing in the BIOS that could relate to this. Is this a variant on the Thinkpad's NIC whitelist in the BIOS? If so, is there a hack?

 

Try covering pin 20 on the card to make it work in your a135. I had the same problem with an intel 5350 in my a135. It works perfectly although the led is dark.

 

Thanks! This seems to have done something - the radio on/off button in the Gigabyte utility is active. However, I still only get "disconnected" as the status (when the radio is on; when the radio is off the status is Off).

I'll welcome any further ideas!

 

This info was given by another poster from an old thread that I had posted. The only thing that maybe I'm doing different is using windows to handle the connections rather than the intel proset. Here is the old thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...less-radio-will-not-turn-after-upgrade-2.html

 

My card is not Intel. Both the Windows applet and the Gigabyte utility agree that there is no access point in range. The GB utility further states "disconnected".
And I broke one of the antenna connectors off the card while moving it.
I think I'll just give up