Having troubles with the built in Atheros wireless card conflicting with the Realtek lan.
I'm a computer tech, we have mostly all Toshiba's at the university that I support. These newer A70's are starting to piss me off.
A70-00V (Canadian)
Anyways, here's the symptom's
Wireless will work fine for a while. Matter of fact I had the laptop for at least a month before problem occured. Laptop bought late Dec, early Jan. Anyways, the wireless sill start to hang, causing laptop to hang, then eventually it'll drop connection. This happens at random. You can reboot sometimes to get it back. eventually what happens is you'll reboot, and on POST you'll get this error
Resource Conflict - PCI network Controller in Slot 03 Bus:02, Device:02, Function:00
Once you see that, you can skip pass the error and boot, but sure enough the wireless is either gone or disabled ( famous yellow ! mark) in Device manager.
Yes I've tried reformatting...problem came back.
You can somtimes get around it for a few days by taking off the Realtek Drivers, and atheros drivers, and reinstalling one by one. But sure enough, the problem comes back.
I've since taken the WLAN out of the machine, and I'm using a dlink pcmcia card. Doing this there is no problem at all with the laptop concerning wireless, but that is not the point. I shouldn't have to use another wireless card at all.
Of course I have the infamous sound problem once it goes to sleep as well, but that is not related.
We have another identical laptop in the dept. It has been sitting in a box for a good month or more never used. I gave it to someone today to see if the problem happens on that one as well.
I can't find any mention of any solution on Toshiba's "wonderful" support site.
I have found others online with the same problem, but no solution yet.
Anyone help?
I'm a computer tech, we have mostly all Toshiba's at the university that I support. These newer A70's are starting to piss me off.
A70-00V (Canadian)
Anyways, here's the symptom's
Wireless will work fine for a while. Matter of fact I had the laptop for at least a month before problem occured. Laptop bought late Dec, early Jan. Anyways, the wireless sill start to hang, causing laptop to hang, then eventually it'll drop connection. This happens at random. You can reboot sometimes to get it back. eventually what happens is you'll reboot, and on POST you'll get this error
Resource Conflict - PCI network Controller in Slot 03 Bus:02, Device:02, Function:00
Once you see that, you can skip pass the error and boot, but sure enough the wireless is either gone or disabled ( famous yellow ! mark) in Device manager.
Yes I've tried reformatting...problem came back.
You can somtimes get around it for a few days by taking off the Realtek Drivers, and atheros drivers, and reinstalling one by one. But sure enough, the problem comes back.
I've since taken the WLAN out of the machine, and I'm using a dlink pcmcia card. Doing this there is no problem at all with the laptop concerning wireless, but that is not the point. I shouldn't have to use another wireless card at all.
Of course I have the infamous sound problem once it goes to sleep as well, but that is not related.
We have another identical laptop in the dept. It has been sitting in a box for a good month or more never used. I gave it to someone today to see if the problem happens on that one as well.
I can't find any mention of any solution on Toshiba's "wonderful" support site.
I have found others online with the same problem, but no solution yet.
Anyone help?
