First let me say that I’ve been lurking around this board for months… I finally sprung and got me a tr3a and I love it!  I immediately burnt a DVD backup of the hidden partition… and installed a fresh copy of XP pro with only the software I needed.  This made a huge difference in performance.  So far I’m very pleased.  I also purchased the semi-hard case and a timbuk2 messenger bag, both very nice.  All this was done under the advice and guidance of this board.  Thank you all.

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Now the issue.  Wireless.  I’ve been on wireless for quite sometime now and have a linksys router setup.  I’ve locked it down as much as I can think to do.  My old ‘replaced’ laptop had a linksys wireless G in it and I was able to set that up fine.  My girls lappie had some generic card in it but I was able to get that setup fine as well.  The issues that I’ve ALWAYS had on wireless is the need to install the management software that comes with the card cause the windows zero config stuff SUCKS.  And that’s what I’ve done, until now.

I cannot for the life of me get this windows management software to connect to my router, and Sony did not provide the pro/wireless proset with this machine… and I can’t find it anywhere either.

I changed the default channel on my router to 5 (have tried others), enabled 128bit WEP, enabled MAC filtering, and I had the SSID broadcast turned off.

The laptop seems to find it ok, but cannot connect.  Normally I have an option under the hardware settings to change the channel the card is on, but not with this 2200bg.  There are like 5 options instead of my normal 15-20.  I can’t even get my router to notice this wireless card.

Any ideas?

goto this site:

http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/cgi-bin/select-software.pl

select ur model, etc…they have an update for the wireless card for ur model…install that and see if it makes a difference.

Welcome to the board & TR ownership

Reference this post:

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=975&highlight=proset

::my link i gave on my old post for the new proset dosnt work so jest go to http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_home.jsp and click on downloads then go down to the “Or, for all models…” and keep the drop down thingy on all downloads and click on the go to the right of it. then in the search window type in “intel proset b/g” and do the search. it should be the first few ones that pop up. the one for winxp should be the 4th one down. this is the proset that works with the 2200bg card. ::

I used this and it greatly improved my connections.

Above was me, sorry.

psikey: I can’t believe it… that’s some funny shit..

I monkey’d around with that damn microsoft crap for hours to no avail.  As soon as I downloaded that client utility I was up and running in about 30sec flat.  See?  Told ya, my experience has been you need to get the utility for the card… it is true.  At least for more secured environments, for non-secure public environments it prolly works fine.

Thanks again!  I should be all setup now and everything works!  YAY~!  :ph34r:

Your welcome, glad to help :D

I spent about 3 hrs with Netgear & Sony help until finding the link to the software.

Full credit to IDunno for posting link in first place.