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Help with a toshiba satellite l300 laptop

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  • Toshiba
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October 26, 2011 10:08:18 PM

Hello, have lost the disk that came with the laptop and need a code to install the wireless network connection. Where can i buy the disk or can anyone give me the code?
hope someone can help me
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a b D Laptop
October 26, 2011 10:48:48 PM

do you mean the wireless network security code?

if so its nothing to do with the disk that comes with the laptop

if your laptop can see wireless networks then the wireless card driver is installed

the key you need to connect is written on the back or bottom of most wireless routers and is called wep key or wpa key

a b D Laptop
October 27, 2011 7:14:47 AM

the key you need to connect is written on the back or bottom of most wireless routers



And just in case it isn't, as is the case with many routers, try the following:-

Use the cable that came with your router to connect to your computer then go Start then Run in XP - or use the Windows key plus R in Vista and Windows 7, then type in the following into the Open box, including all the spaces:-

cmd /k ipconfig /all

then press Enter and from the black form that shows up, take a note of the numeric code beside the Default Gateway icon - something like 192.168.0.1.

Type exit to close the black form.

Open Internet Explorer and enter that code into the URL address bar as though it was a website. You're then at the login page to the router's settings utility and admin will usually be the login with either admin or password as the password but your router's instruction manual will help you there.

If you're in, seek out Wireless and then Security and take a note of the key. Sometimes it may be a passphrase, some a simple set of letters and others a hexadecimal code. You also may as well note which level of security it is - WEP, WPA or WPA/PSK 2 and then either AES or TKIP. Your computer will already know this but it's handy information to store. Note also that hexadecimal only contains numbers from zero to 9 and letters a to f so there's no confusion of I and O with 1 and 0.

It's adviseable to keep a note of that security key in your Documents folder and also outside the computer.

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