Toshiba 'Integrated Wireless' Support

[monkeykidney]

Hey everybody, this is my first post, so bare with me...

I just bought a new Toshiba A10-5WM laptop with an integrated wireless ethernet card. It has Windows XP Home preinstalled but I wanted to get rid of it and install linux.

The problem is, I want to make sure that the newest versions of linux have driver support for this wireless ethernet card in the kernel (???). If anyone knows anything about this, I'd appreciate it.

And also, pretty much the same question for my Mitsubishi CD-RW/DVD player. Does Linux have support for this device?

Thanks everybody!!!!

:D

[gfreehed]

Try checking this site:

http://www.linux-laptop.net

[njdevilsd]

I have the same laptop and I went looking for Linux distros that support the wireless.

SuSE 9.0 detects the card automatically which is good. For some reason though it never thinks the card is inserted even though it's built it. If someone has a solution to this, it would be well appreciated...

[MrPointy]

I too am using SuSE 9.0, however, I'm using an IBM T40 with integrated Intel Pro 2100 wireless card. I had to resort to using the Linuxant Driverloader before SuSE would see my card.

I did run into one roadblock that might in some way relate to the problem you're having with the Toshiba laptop.

I could not get the Driverloader software to recognize the card to save my life. I must have downloaded 4 different sets of Intell Pro 2100 drivers without any luck. Then I remembered that I had disabled the wireless radio, through software, the last time I had booted into Windows. So, I booted back into Windows, enabled the radio, then went back into linux. Driverloader saw the card right away.

I know that many of the Toshiba laptops have physical switches on the sides that turn the wireless radio on and off. I have students come in all the time with Toshiba laptops that have been trying to get the wireless working. 100% of the time, they just haven't flipped the switch to turn the radio on.

So, what I guess I'm trying to say is, make sure the radio is enabled before you try to get linux to recognize it.