I have a toshiba quasmio laptop that works fine on Lan except it wont connect to my wifi modem. I have a second laptop that works fine on wifi around the house but since day one the toshiba has been plugged into LAN

What I have done to fix the problem so far

1. made sure wifi is turned on. thats confirmed both by the switch indicator glowing and my ConfigFee also shows the switch is turned on

2. bluetooth is turned off. This is done automatically using the Configfree , as soon as I unplug Lan it auto switches to wifi and disconnects bluetooth

3. I have disconnected firewall

4. wifi picks up all signals but will not connect to mine or any other

5. wifi is always showing disconnected even if I click repair it doesnt help

Im stumped, any advice appeciated

When you say Configfree I'm guessing that you're talking about software from Toshiba that runs on Windows?

That being the case, and this being the Linux forum, could I direct you towards Ubuntu or Fedora?

Both of these distributions have had no problem with Wifi on every laptop that I've tried them on.

Thanks for the reply Think I got the wrong forum, could the mods transfer to general Internet forum?

I am not a M$ user or even a Toshiba fan, but most wifi issues are all the same - it is not software specific, per se.

If ya seeing hot spots, but not connecting, uninstall the Toshiba wifi software and reboot - then use the XP - presumption here -

wifi software to connect.

M$, Intel etc, all do a fine job on their own - then some wonk comes along and replicates it all over again, and we get conflicts everywhere.

I suspect thats the issue ... ya might have to do this several times - the reboot part - no WEP/MAC to start with.

okay thanks will give it a try today