Toshiba Satellite 3000 - WLAN card not recognized Win2K

Hi folks. I need some help getting this old clunker working again. I have a second-hand Toshiba Satellite 3000 that had Windows XP installed. The machine was running really slowly so I decided to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows. While old, this machine works fine for playing music off of my home server.

I wiped the hard drive and installed Windows 2000 Professional (the only O/S I have install media for). The problem is that I cannot get Windows to recognize the wireless network card. In Device Manager there are two unknown PCI Devices listed with the usual question-mark icon. From each device's property pages, I obtained the following info:

PCI Device
PCI bus 0
Device 31
Function 3
I/O Range 1810-181F
IRQ 10

PCI Device
PCI bus 0
Device 31
Function 6
I/O Range 2400-24FF
I/O Range 2000-207F
IRQ 10

Assuming that either of these unknown devices must by the wlan card, I attempted to install the wlan driver that I downloaded from the Toshiba web site. Windows complained saying that it could not confirm that the drive would function correctly.

Any suggestions?

 

Did you install the right driver? Making sure it matched your model and OS (WIN2000)?

Try this driver:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...hggflkcgfkceghdgngdgmm.0&ct=DL&all_docs=false

 

Hi there. Thank you for the referral to the drivers. My laptop isn't listed as one of the applicable models. The part numbers in Canada (where I am) must be different from the US part numbers.

The bottom label of the laptop is almost complete worn off! All I can see on it is "Satellite 3000 part number PS300C" with the rest of the text obscured or missing.

There is a sticker on the bottom of the laptop that says "Contains radio device MiniPCI card PA3070U-1MPC". Does that help narrow the search?

 

I checked out the Toshiba Canada site for you. There are 7 versions of the PS300C listed, but all use the same Windows 2000 wireless LAN driver. So give it a shot..

Here is the link to the driver:

http://support.toshiba.ca/support/Download/files_downloads/s3000/S300E2WL.exe

Here is a link to the main download site:

http://support.toshiba.ca/support/download/ln_bymodel.asp#