laptop wireless card not working after OS install

T

TonyLS

New Member
I have a ~4 year old Toshiba laptop that was running Millenium. I needed to replace the hard drive (the original crashed) and installed Windows 98 (I don't have the Toshiba recovery CD). Everything seems to be running ok except wireless internet. I'm using a wireless card in a PCMCIA slot that I had used before on the same laptop without problems.

After installing the card driver the card software allowed me to select my wireless network. It indicates that there is plenty of signal strength, however I can't load a web page. I'm able to load web pages when I go directly into the laptop with an ethernet cable.

Do I need to install drivers for the PCMCIA hardware?? Any info would be appreciated.


Thanks
 
There should be drivers on Toshiba's website for your laptop (even if it is 4 years old). Make sure you install the correct ones for the PCMCIA slot AND the wireless card. Make sure you do both before you put the PCMCIA card in.
 
ok, this is what I've find on the Toshiba driver download site:

PCMCIA Toshiba PCMCIA.INF file for Windows 98SE (v1.01-RC2; 01-05-2001; 295K)


Should this do the trick? I'll download and install this as well as install the wireless card drivers again.
 
Indeed that should do it. Uninstall the card drivers first then RE-INSTALL the PCMCIA drivers, then go through the above process of reboot-->re-install card drivers-->reboot-->Insert card.
 
Thanks for the help!!!

I finally got the wireless internet working but it was a struggle dealing with the pcmcia drivers! I needed to manually install them through device manager.

Now I need to download the sound drivers and get the laptop networked with my desktop machines.

Thanks for the help
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top