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Okay, I got this laptop from my girlfriend's friend running in very poor, slow condition.
It had Vista Home installed. I've reformatted and installed Vista Ultimate. Scooped up the chipset driver and any other drivers that didn't automatically install from: Model Content Page and it's running decent.
My problem... I have the wireless drivers installed fine. Show up in Device Manager under network adapters. RIght above my "realtek RTL8102E" which is my ethernet driver for a hard line, I have my "Atheros AR5007EG" for wireless. The vista driver on the toshiba website actually wasn't working for me so I uninstalled it threw device manager and restarted the PC and let it pick up the drivers and install them for me for the wireless.
Well it shows fine in device manager. Control Panel>network and internet>view network status and task>manage wireless network>adapter properties Atheros AR5007EG wireless network adapter shows up and seems to be working fine.
Yes, I have the little switch on the front flipped onto wireless/ON. Shouldn't I have a little icon in the corner to read networks near by? What gives?
I'm lousy at navigating Vista since, well, I never use it cause it's my least favorite OS. I originally was going to put Windows 7 on this laptop when I saw it's specs could handle it but the hdd wouldn't have it and kept glitching out during boot install. I got XP to run on it by switching from SATA in bios to Compatibility but that ran like garbage so this laptop seems to only want to run Vista. But that's a completely different story. It likes vista, is running it nice, but I need wireless on here before I can pass this back to the owner and get some free Monster drinks for payment. :grin:
Any ideas guys? I'm stumped.
It had Vista Home installed. I've reformatted and installed Vista Ultimate. Scooped up the chipset driver and any other drivers that didn't automatically install from: Model Content Page and it's running decent.
My problem... I have the wireless drivers installed fine. Show up in Device Manager under network adapters. RIght above my "realtek RTL8102E" which is my ethernet driver for a hard line, I have my "Atheros AR5007EG" for wireless. The vista driver on the toshiba website actually wasn't working for me so I uninstalled it threw device manager and restarted the PC and let it pick up the drivers and install them for me for the wireless.
Well it shows fine in device manager. Control Panel>network and internet>view network status and task>manage wireless network>adapter properties Atheros AR5007EG wireless network adapter shows up and seems to be working fine.
Yes, I have the little switch on the front flipped onto wireless/ON. Shouldn't I have a little icon in the corner to read networks near by? What gives?
I'm lousy at navigating Vista since, well, I never use it cause it's my least favorite OS. I originally was going to put Windows 7 on this laptop when I saw it's specs could handle it but the hdd wouldn't have it and kept glitching out during boot install. I got XP to run on it by switching from SATA in bios to Compatibility but that ran like garbage so this laptop seems to only want to run Vista. But that's a completely different story. It likes vista, is running it nice, but I need wireless on here before I can pass this back to the owner and get some free Monster drinks for payment. :grin:
Any ideas guys? I'm stumped.
