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dennis brown Posted on Jun 27, 2007
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After reformatting my hard drive I lost my wireless connection. It does not appear in my control panel and I don't have a shortcut icon in the taskbar tray either. I called Toshiba and they claimed they could fix it for a price. Hmmmm. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

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    i can not turn on my wifi manualy or otherwise and it does not even show up on the taskbar or system tray

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Go to my computer icon on desktop or on start menu, right click>properties>hardware tab>device manager and look down list for any yellow exclamation marks, if so right click on it and select update driver, making sure you have your installation cd in the drive as the driver may be on there, or look for network adapters and click the + sign and see if your wireless adapter is listed but has a red cross on it, if so right click and select enable. If you dont see anything related to the network card you may have to check in the bios (press F2 or Del on startup) and go into the bios and select the advanced menu and look to see if your wireless adapter is listed in there normally in the hardware section and see if it is enabled, if not enable it save settings and exit for a restart. if you do not have a driver for your wireless adapter click the link below http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=UK

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