windows vista can t detect my ethernet controller a

Hello there,
My laptop is Toshiba M55 S1001, the entry level laptop. I tried to install Windows Vista and it work fine so far, the only thing is when I hit the device manager and it tells me that the Ethernet controller can't be installed correctly ( has a question mark) in device manager. It seems that I can't connect to internet if I can't install this controller right. Any idea I can't find a driver to fit this baby??



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-- Roger From Taiwan, Currently in San Jose!!

rogerbox2005 wrote On 6/18/2006 4:08 PM:

Hello there,
My laptop is Toshiba M55 S1001, the entry level laptop. I tried to install Windows Vista and it work fine so far, the only thing is when I hit the device manager and it tells me that the Ethernet controller can't be installed correctly ( has a question mark) in device manager. It seems that I can't connect to internet if I can't install this controller right. Any idea I can't find a driver to fit this baby??

This is why it's important to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor application prior to installing Vista. It would have told you your Ethernet drivers were not available in Vista and would have permitted you to download your drivers from Toshiba's web site in preparation for installing Vista.
If this isn't a dual boot machine, you'll have to use another machine to download Toshiba drivers onto a memory stick and then install on the Vista machine.
If Toshiba doesn't have any Vista-ready drivers, download their latest XP drivers. Download as many as you can find, because in my experience the Toshiba web site doesn't help you figure out which chipset you might have, and you'll be using a different machine to download the drivers.

Thanks, I will try to run windows vista application program again before I install again. Bad..why beta version have so much trouble??
Thanks again!!

"KWE" wrote:

rogerbox2005 wrote On 6/18/2006 4:08 PM: Hello there,
My laptop is Toshiba M55 S1001, the entry level laptop. I tried to install Windows Vista and it work fine so far, the only thing is when I hit the device manager and it tells me that the Ethernet controller can't be installed correctly ( has a question mark) in device manager. It seems that I can't connect to internet if I can't install this controller right. Any idea I can't find a driver to fit this baby??
This is why it's important to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor application prior to installing Vista. It would have told you your Ethernet drivers were not available in Vista and would have permitted you to download your drivers from Toshiba's web site in preparation for installing Vista.
If this isn't a dual boot machine, you'll have to use another machine to download Toshiba drivers onto a memory stick and then install on the Vista machine.
If Toshiba doesn't have any Vista-ready drivers, download their latest XP drivers. Download as many as you can find, because in my experience the Toshiba web site doesn't help you figure out which chipset you might have, and you'll be using a different machine to download the drivers.

rogerbox2005 wrote On 6/19/2006 9:06 PM:

Thanks, I will try to run windows vista application program again before I install again. Bad..why beta version have so much trouble??

You have to remember that beta means "not yet ready for prime time". Many Microsoft watchers would tell you that Vista won't really be ready for prime time before SP1.
Don't upgrade your one-and-only computer. Don't use Windows multi-boot, use a real partition/boot manager and create additional partitions for Vista and your user data.