[access-uk] Re: Wireless connection to a laptop
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:53:44 +0100
A model number would be most helpful, but if you have access to somebodies pair
of eyes having a look at the bottom panel is instructive as certainly on both
Toshiba laptops I have owned have labels stating compliance for Wi-Fi or
bluetooth which are good indicators that those adaptors are there.
If you look in "device manager" under "network adaptors" you should certainly
find your enternet adaptor, possible a 1394 adaptor for Firewire networking,
and then a third possible described as a Wireless Lan adaptor.
If you have the Wireless adaptor you potentially have all you need to hook up
to a wireless router.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Harrison
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Wireless connection to a laptop
I am trying to decide on a strategy for switching to Broadband in the near
future.
Initially I will probably settle for a USB or ethernet connection to the
desktop machine, but
for obvious reasons a wireless connection to my Toshiba laptop would be
preferable.
It seems that I could buy a router offering both wireless and wired
connectivity, but I cannot
figure out whether the laptop already has all that is required (after
configuration) to establish
the wireless connection or requires extra hardware such as something in the
PC card slot.
The Toshiba manual contains a large amount of information about wireless
connections but
I have yet to find an answer to my query. I thought that the solution was
to look in the XP
Device Manager but I am not really sure what I am looking for.
Any pointers would be much appreciated - it Is no doubt very obvious that on
anything to do
with broadband and wireless I am even more ignorant than on other computer
related
matters (if that is possible!).
Thanks in advance,
Douglas
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