You are probably right. The card must be some small list of makes and the OS installed from the restore CDs after the new hardware is in place.
Then you run Windows Update and it may work.
Bob
Just installed a mini-pci wi-fi adapter card on my Toshiba Satellite 2445-s255. The laptop came "WI-FI ready" when I got it over a year ago. Installing the card and the drivers was the easiest thing. The problem I've encountered is that the hard switch on the left side of the computer does not seem to work. It has a LED light that activates the card and it just doesn't work. The computer recognizes the WI-FI card and all. Another thiong is that Toshiba tells you that this mini pci card "HAS" to be installed by re-sellers of their supplies. Or my conspiracy theory, can the switch be also somehow purposely "made" not to work by the factory so service centers install the WI-FI card? or Is that switch a phisical ON/OFF switch somewhat software controlled? because it just won't activate the WI-FI card. Thanks in advance.
Al

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