Thanks to all for the help.
Eventually figured it was the wrong drivers.
My particular model, Satellite Pro A300-1E7, wasn't listed on Toshiba
support.
There were 3 other drivers listed for A300 so I tried them all, the only
ones which appeared to work, albeit sporadically, were the Intel ones.
There was nothing in the documentation or on the PC to correctly identify
the WLAN chipset, I only realised it when looking at a website advertising
it which gave the full specifications.
Eventually got the right drivers from the Intel site, not Toshiba!
I'm still very annoyed that these drivers weren't pre-installed like they
should have been and that I had to go to all this trouble to get it working.
It was coming very close to the point where it was going back in the box and
being sent back to eBuyer for a refund.
--
Kenny Cargill
"Chuck [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:37:44 +0100, "Kenny" <> wrote:
>
>>Also posted this to a Vista group.
>>
>>New Toshiba A300 laptop with Vista Business pre-installed.
>>Wlan drivers were not installed or supplied which I thought odd but went
>>to
>>Toshiba site and downloaded and installed driver for:
>>"wlan-intel-3945-4965-v1200730-vista32.zip"
>>From the start connection was very hit and miss, if I persevered and kept
>>trying diagnosing and repairing the connection it might connect or might
>>not.
>>Now it won't connect at all.
>>From previous experience I knew that a misconfigured firewall could cause
>>problems so I uninstalled the trial version of McAfee and turned off
>>Windows
>>firewall, I intended to install Zone Alarm anyway. Also disabled router
>>firewall.
>>No difference at all.
>>I should add that laptop can see the modem/router and signal strength is
>>maximum.
>>Downloaded and installed the drivers again in case of a corrupt or damaged
>>file, again no difference.
>>The modem/router is a 3Com Office Connect 3CRWDR100A-72, I also downloaded
>>and installed the most recent firmware for that which is dated 26Apr2007.
>>Could it be that the modem/router is incompatible with Vista?
>>Still think it's odd that WLAN was not pre-installed when everything else
>>was.
>>1 XP PC hard wired and 2 XP PC's wireless connected to same router no
>>problem at all.
>>Replies appreciated.
>
> Kenny,
>
> If at all possible, connect both computers using Ethernet, and remove WiFi
> from
> the list of possible problems.
>
> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005...-tutorial.html
>
> And look at the Vista Scalable Networking options. Several of them could
> involve the router, and cause intermittent local connectivity problems.
>
> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2008...etworking.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2008 [Windows - Desktop Experience]
> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/
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