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    Problem with wireless card on Toshiba Satellite

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Mr_Biggles, Feb 22, 2007.

  1. Mr_Biggles

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    Hi everyone. I posted this in the general hardware forum but was suggested to me it might be better here.

    I have an older Toshiba Satellite 3000 with built in wireless card. I believe the card is a Lucent Orinoco (?) according to some text that is in one of the driver files. It worked flawlessly on Windows 98 (which came with the laptop) and also on Windows XP which I tried for a while. XP was a bit doggy with only 256MB of ram so I now have Windows 2000 on there instead.

    I guess 2000 doesn't have a native driver for the wireless, and it recognizes it as a PCI device that isn't working properly. I've tried a couple of drivers for it, including the one I downloaded from Toshiba for this model and OS, but none of them work. When I direct Windows to the driver's inf file, it dithers for a few seconds and then says Windows couldn't find the driver for this device.

    I have the machine set up to dual-boot with 98, and the wireless still works on 98, so I don't think it is the card itself.

    Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
     
    Mr_Biggles, Feb 22, 2007
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