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Will a wirless pc adapter work on a Toshiba Satellite 4000

Sep 18, 2004 10:26PM PDT

I have a Toshiba Satellite 4000cds/cdt series laptop
and would like to set it up to be wireless. It is running Windows 98 and has two pc slots. Will the wireless pc card adapters on the market work on this computer?
Do I have to add anything else besides a wireless adapter?

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Re: Will a wirless pc adapter work on a Toshiba Satellite 40
Sep 18, 2004 11:28PM PDT

"Will the wireless pc card adapters on the market work on this computer?"

I'm sure one of them will. There were some issues with some cards, but most of that seems to be some 0.01% issue and it's unlikely you will get that one.

"Do I have to add anything else besides a wireless adapter?"

A wireless access point to connect to. It's noted in the linksys website about such setups so I don't duplicate web content in this small space.

Bob

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Re: Will a wirless pc adapter work on a Toshiba Satellite 40
Sep 19, 2004 6:49AM PDT

I purchased a Linksys adapter. There were some problems in the set-up. Linksys technical support said that I need a newer version of Windows. Windows SE,ME, 2000 or XP. According to them the adapter will not work on the first version of Windows 98.

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Re: Will a wirless pc adapter work on a Toshiba Satellite 40
Sep 19, 2004 6:58AM PDT
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Re: Will a wirless pc adapter work on a Toshiba Satellite 40
Sep 20, 2004 5:44AM PDT

You should at the very least upgrade to Windows 98 serice pack 2 if you don't have at least that. That was the first mainstream support for the USB 1.1 standard and also it has some other significant updates to Windows 98 Service Pack 1.

The D-link Wi-fi router and most others I think will work with Windows 98 Service Pack 2.

Microsoft Stopped supporting Windows 98 about 6 months ago so you may have trouble downloading the free upgrade anymore from Windows Update but see if it is there anyway. Otherwise, hopefully you could find a copy of Windows 98 Service Pack 2 somewhere and upgrade your operating system as this should not be too difficult since you already have Windows 98 Service Pack 1.