wireless problem: wireless cable disconected :-P

Hi All,

I'm still having problems with the wireless cable. How can this message make sense? It keeps saying that the "wireless cable is disconnected"! (i had renamed connection 2 to wireless).

Anyone could get the free wireless modem that came with 5205-s119 to work? Please help.

thanks

guich

Hi Sleddog,

Ok. The icon that appears in the taskbar is the one that has a smal red x on it. It says: "network cable disconnected". Of course there's no network cable, because the modem is wireless.

I had bought the 5205-s119 before december 31 and i got for free the Toshiba WRC-1000 Wireless Router.

Following instructions in the manual, i had connected the cable that was "cablemodem -> computer" to "cablemodem -> wrc1000".

The problem is that i cannot get the 5205 connect to the wrc1000 wirelessly, but only using a cable.

When i do a "ipconfig /all" i get these (ps: translated from portuguese):

<pre>
Windows 2000 IP configuration

host name . . . . . . . . . . . : superwaba-guich
primary DNS Sufix. . . . . . . . :
node type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Difusion
IP routing activated . . . . . : No
WNS Proxy activated . . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adaptador "wireless": (ps: i had renamed connection 2 to this)

MIDIA STATE:. . . . . . . . . . : CABLE DISCONECTED
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Toshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card
Physical address. . . . . . . . . . : 00-02-2D-BB-5B-B9

Ethernet adaptador "wired": (same ps)

DNS sufix specific connection:
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connect
ion
Phisical address. . . . . . . . . . : 00-08-0D-C0-F2-CE
DHCP activated . . . . . . . . . . . : yes
Authomatic configuration activated. . : yes
IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.100
subnet mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Gateway . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
DHCP server. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
DNS server. . . . . . . . . . : 200.222.0.34
</pre>

I already had searched the whole internet a couple of times, searched all Toshiba technical articles, downloaded many drivers, updated the wrc1000 firmware, etc, but nothing resolves the problem. The damn red-x doesnt goes away.

When i run the WRC_FIND.exe program, with the another cable connected to the ethernet port, i get:
Access Point Name: WRC-1000_AP
MAC Address 00:90:96:64:bc:bd
IP Address 192.168.10.1
SSID: WRC_Network
Channel: 10(2457 MHz).

If i issue: "ipconfig /release wireless" i get the message:
"Its not possible to execute any operation in the 'wireless' adaptor, because this connection has the media or cable disconected".

As i understand, for some reason my internal pci wireless point is "disconnected", this explains why it cannot receive an IP from the WRC1000 DHCP and connect. But i cannot find a reason for it. Maybe it is defective? This would be terrible, because the computer was bought in USA and i'm in Brazil.

I had opened the place where the mini-pci card is and it says "certified". :-(

thanks for your help

guich

Hi sleddog
Just some more feedback:
1. yes, the wireless anthena is on
2. the "properties of oshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card" says "this device is working properly". Driver: Agere Systems, version 7.62.0.390. "No conficts"
3. the wrc1000 is about 40cm from the notebook.
4. using a cable plugged in the LAN 1 works fine (but i'm wired!)

When i had installed the CD that came with the notebook, i had a problem: exactly the LAN file was corrupted! So i had downloaded some drivers from internet, and they seems to be working fine. (damn, Toshiba does not allows we to download the same drivers from the cd in the site! - at least, i had not found the LAN drivers download in the 5205-s119 download area.

It would be great if someone else with a 5205-s119 with the wireless modem working could say to me if the driver versions were right.

many thanks

guich

Hi,

Yes, it is turned on. But good (and bad) news! I had restored the original CD that came with Toshiba, the one that installs Windows XP, and the icon was still with x-red. Then i clicked it, and XP asked me if i wanted to connect to the wireless network, and then it worked!

That's great, but also bad, bc i don't want to use WINXP, i must use Windows 2000.

So, seems that is just a matter of " make the connection " in 2000... but how can i do this? Does someone here has a win2000 with the wrc1000 connection working?

thanks

guich

Hi,

The strange thing is that every drive i have installed, windows says that it is working properly.

When i first booted winxp, the x-red icon was also there, but then i made a double-click on it and winxp asked me "do you want to activate the wireless link?", then i pressed yes that voila! The wireless connection was made active.

I feel that i must run something in win2000 to kick-off the connection. But what? I already tried every software that came with toshiba here.

I'm trying to download another driver now... but i feel this is not the problem.

thanks

guich

Hi,

I had opened the cover and it said that the card is Antheros. I then searched the net and found a driver for the antheros + a client. Installed and rebooted.

But the damn x-red icon still appears, and the Antheros client utility says "wireless network interface disabled". If i double-click it, it and press the "action" menu item, the "enable radio" option is DISABLED! But i'm sure that the on/off switch of the anthena is in the on position (led is glowing).

I found in the net that the winxp has a command called "Toggle Wireless Network" to enable wireless networking, but i cannot find such option in win2000.

Maybe win2000 can't use wireless?

thanks for any advices.

guich