From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.25]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 377313 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:47:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4517DDD6.4090705@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:47:02 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT: Internal Wireless Card connections Q References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/25/06 08:00 am, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote : > On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:53:02 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> White should be Main; black should be Aux. Interestign >> that Toshiba chose not to label them like the ThinkPads' >> are. >> > > well, I guessed right. When I inserted the card, the wires were two different lengths and I connected the longer white to the main and shorter black to the aux since those were the closer connections..... > but after installing Intel's software package, I keep getting a package about turning on the Hardware Switch (Fn-F8, I Think) but the hotkey software doesn't seem to do anything, even after reinstalling it. > > Some notebooks have a physical switch for the WLAN. Look around the front lip of the machine for a slider (or perhaps around the back). I got fooled recently with an X60 (which does indeed have a hardware switch, and the Fn-F5 key sequence does nothing when this switch is turned off). Interesting exchange on one of the Linux pages on the net: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/qa/network/05764.htm Another post, but much more basic: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/jive3/thread.jspa?threadID=15964 Try some of these other hits on the Toshiba Europe forum: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/jive3/search!execute.jspa?dateRange=last90days&objID=f30&q=hardware+switch&GO.x=0&GO.y=0&GO=GO Good luck, and let us know how you make out, Stan. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------