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I am asking for help in resolving the failure of wireless networking to install in my laptop. I have provided as much detail as I can in the following information on the issue.
I just reinstalled Windows 7 Home premium in my Toshiba Satellite model C655D-S5515. None of my network adapters installed. In device manager it showed no network adapter and under other devices ethernet controller plus network controller with yellow warning marks. Properties showed unknown devices and indicated that drivers could not be found.
I went to Toshiba support and downloaded drivers for ethernet and for Realtek Wlan (see below). Qualcomm Atheros network adapter installed properly. Realtek did not. I keep getting error messages un startup that driver could not be installed. The realtek hardware does not show up in devices or when I run Belarc. In fact Belarc also does not show the Atheros network adapter either.
Toshiba provided these driver options. I TC50131900E (Atheros network driver) TC50123500D (Realtek Wlan driver) tca0146100b (Athertos Wlan driver).
Toshiba Realtek driver specs: File: TC50123500D.exe Version: 2007.2.0720.2012 Release Date: 2012-08-20 Description: RTL8723AE: 2007.3.0809.2012 RTL8188CE: 2007.3.0809.2012
PLEASE NOTE: The last thing I attempted was to install the Atheros Wlan driver guessing that the failure of Realtek was due to the wirless hardware being from Atheros not Realtek. Same result at end of install - driver not found.
Also, The backup restore copy of Windows 7 and Toshiba programs was inaccesable when my original system locked up in normal mode (no device failure warnings in device mgr), therefore I reinstalled from a Windows 7 CD disk.
Laptop specs:
Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5515, (TOSHIBA Satellite C655D PSC0YU-035078)
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7R601),
1.30 gigahertz AMD E-300 APU with Radeon HD Graphics, 64-bit ready Multi-core (2 total),
Board: TOSHIBA Portable PC Base Board Version
BIOS: Insyde Corp. 1.80 12/20/2011
DRIVE C: 303.78 GB
MEMORY: 1640 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
NETWORK DRIVES: None discovered (per Belarc).
DEVICE MANAGER NETWORK DRIVES INSTALLED:
Qualcom Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
TP-LINK Wireless USB Adapter
INFORMATION ON REALTEK WLAN DRIVER FROM WINDOWS OLD:
C\Windows.old\Program Files (x86)\Realtek WLAN Driver\Driver
net8192ce.inf 1/5/2011 12:08 AM Setup Information
FOR WIN 7
[version]
Signature = "$Windows NT$"
Class = Net
ClassGUID = {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Provider = %Realtek%
CatalogFile = net8192ce.cat ;; for WHQL certified
DriverVer = 01/05/2011,1005.12.0105.2011
[Manufacturer]
%Realtek% = Realtek,NTamd64.6.1
%Lenovo% = Lenovo,NTamd64.6.1
[ControlFlags]
****************************************************************************
;; IDs for X86
;;****************************************************************************
[Realtek.NTx86.6.1]
%RTL8192ceT.DeviceDesc% = RTL8192Ce.ndi, PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8191
%RTL8192ce.DeviceDesc% = RTL8192Ce.ndi, PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8178&SUBSYS_817810EC
I just reinstalled Windows 7 Home premium in my Toshiba Satellite model C655D-S5515. None of my network adapters installed. In device manager it showed no network adapter and under other devices ethernet controller plus network controller with yellow warning marks. Properties showed unknown devices and indicated that drivers could not be found.
I went to Toshiba support and downloaded drivers for ethernet and for Realtek Wlan (see below). Qualcomm Atheros network adapter installed properly. Realtek did not. I keep getting error messages un startup that driver could not be installed. The realtek hardware does not show up in devices or when I run Belarc. In fact Belarc also does not show the Atheros network adapter either.
Toshiba provided these driver options. I TC50131900E (Atheros network driver) TC50123500D (Realtek Wlan driver) tca0146100b (Athertos Wlan driver).
Toshiba Realtek driver specs: File: TC50123500D.exe Version: 2007.2.0720.2012 Release Date: 2012-08-20 Description: RTL8723AE: 2007.3.0809.2012 RTL8188CE: 2007.3.0809.2012
PLEASE NOTE: The last thing I attempted was to install the Atheros Wlan driver guessing that the failure of Realtek was due to the wirless hardware being from Atheros not Realtek. Same result at end of install - driver not found.
Also, The backup restore copy of Windows 7 and Toshiba programs was inaccesable when my original system locked up in normal mode (no device failure warnings in device mgr), therefore I reinstalled from a Windows 7 CD disk.
Laptop specs:
Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5515, (TOSHIBA Satellite C655D PSC0YU-035078)
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7R601),
1.30 gigahertz AMD E-300 APU with Radeon HD Graphics, 64-bit ready Multi-core (2 total),
Board: TOSHIBA Portable PC Base Board Version
BIOS: Insyde Corp. 1.80 12/20/2011
DRIVE C: 303.78 GB
MEMORY: 1640 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
NETWORK DRIVES: None discovered (per Belarc).
DEVICE MANAGER NETWORK DRIVES INSTALLED:
Qualcom Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
TP-LINK Wireless USB Adapter
INFORMATION ON REALTEK WLAN DRIVER FROM WINDOWS OLD:
C\Windows.old\Program Files (x86)\Realtek WLAN Driver\Driver
net8192ce.inf 1/5/2011 12:08 AM Setup Information
FOR WIN 7
[version]
Signature = "$Windows NT$"
Class = Net
ClassGUID = {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Provider = %Realtek%
CatalogFile = net8192ce.cat ;; for WHQL certified
DriverVer = 01/05/2011,1005.12.0105.2011
[Manufacturer]
%Realtek% = Realtek,NTamd64.6.1
%Lenovo% = Lenovo,NTamd64.6.1
[ControlFlags]
****************************************************************************
;; IDs for X86
;;****************************************************************************
[Realtek.NTx86.6.1]
%RTL8192ceT.DeviceDesc% = RTL8192Ce.ndi, PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8191
%RTL8192ce.DeviceDesc% = RTL8192Ce.ndi, PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8178&SUBSYS_817810EC
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