Hallo

some questions for the Toshiba 3500:

Where/How can i give in the 4 WEP-keys for the WLan-card? Is there a special
tool?

I want to reistall the 3500. Must i really buy a Toshiba-CD-Rom-Drive? A
USB-Drive or a 16-Bit-Drive? Can i perhabs reinstall over the network? How
can i do this?

Thanks very much
cu

If you right click the network places icon and go to properties (or
alternatively go to control panel / network) you can get at the
properties for the network. If you right click the icon for the
wireless card, you should get an option to view available wireless
networks. In there you'll find the properties pages you need to
configure WEP.

As far as reinstalling, your options are very limited. I have never
managed to get the install routine from Toshiba to work via anything
other than booting it from a local device. I haven't figured out a
way to "start" it via any other option (i.e. across the network from
someone else's drive, booting to a floppy that loads CD drivers on the
3500 and accessing it directly, etc). If you don't have a bootable
drive, the restoration discs will do you no good.

If you have an MSDN subscription and access to the media for the
Tablet PC edition, you can work around the issue in several ways - I
have a USB floppy that boots and loads dos drivers for my DVD, so was
able to run setup manually that way, but without MSDN this would not
have been an option.

Not very encouraging news, I know. :(

John





On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:33:08 +0200, "George Sorosch" <sorosch@gmx.de>
wrote:

>Hallo
>
>some questions for the Toshiba 3500:
>
>Where/How can i give in the 4 WEP-keys for the WLan-card? Is there a special
>tool?
>
>I want to reistall the 3500. Must i really buy a Toshiba-CD-Rom-Drive? A
>USB-Drive or a 16-Bit-Drive? Can i perhabs reinstall over the network? How
>can i do this?
>
>Thanks very much
>cu
>

JDTHREE [MVP] wrote:
> If you right click the network places icon and go to properties (or
> alternatively go to control panel / network) you can get at the
> properties for the network. If you right click the icon for the
> wireless card, you should get an option to view available wireless
> networks. In there you'll find the properties pages you need to
> configure WEP.
>
> As far as reinstalling, your options are very limited. I have never
> managed to get the install routine from Toshiba to work via anything
> other than booting it from a local device. I haven't figured out a
> way to "start" it via any other option (i.e. across the network from
> someone else's drive, booting to a floppy that loads CD drivers on the
> 3500 and accessing it directly, etc). If you don't have a bootable
> drive, the restoration discs will do you no good.
>
> If you have an MSDN subscription and access to the media for the
> Tablet PC edition, you can work around the issue in several ways - I
> have a USB floppy that boots and loads dos drivers for my DVD, so was
> able to run setup manually that way, but without MSDN this would not
> have been an option.
>
> Not very encouraging news, I know. :(
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:33:08 +0200, "George Sorosch" <sorosch@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hallo
>>
>> some questions for the Toshiba 3500:
>>
>> Where/How can i give in the 4 WEP-keys for the WLan-card? Is there a
>> special tool?
>>
>> I want to reistall the 3500. Must i really buy a
>> Toshiba-CD-Rom-Drive? A USB-Drive or a 16-Bit-Drive? Can i perhabs
>> reinstall over the network? How can i do this?
>>
>> Thanks very much
>> cu

I would suggest using imaging software like Ghost or DI if you have a good
working configurtaiton you can make a copy of.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:27:09 -0600, "hermes" <hermes@messenger.net>
wrote:
>>> cu
>
>I would suggest using imaging software like Ghost or DI if you have a good
>working configurtaiton you can make a copy of.
>

The best one I've found so far for tablets (especially ones like the
Toshiba that don't come with a USB floppy, and people tend to buy
third party DVD drives for) is Acronis. Their trueimage program is
fantastic - does on the fly images without having to boot into any
special mode, and it gives you an "F11" option at boot to restore or
create images without having any bootable media or drives handy other
than the hard drive already there.
My .02 worth. I used to use ghost but liked the no floppy or CD
option acronis had.

John

Hallo

the 3500 is good - but very expensive. No extern drive, no software...

Thank you very much
cu


"George Sorosch" <sorosch@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hallo
>
> some questions for the Toshiba 3500:
>
> Where/How can i give in the 4 WEP-keys for the WLan-card? Is there a
special
> tool?
>
> I want to reistall the 3500. Must i really buy a Toshiba-CD-Rom-Drive? A
> USB-Drive or a 16-Bit-Drive? Can i perhabs reinstall over the network? How
> can i do this?
>
> Thanks very much
> cu
>
>