Paul Clement - Notes from the Field - All Comments

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Netman66 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:10:39 GMT

Jorge, sorry for the long delay. I don't see why not. The principal is simply to extend the signal so as long as both devices are capable of it then it should work.

Paul

re: Vista Ultimate with nVidia Go5200 - there is hope!

Jonathan DeRouchie — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:43:20 GMT

I have a satellite p-20 I purchased in 2003 and I just installed Windows 7 on it. Instead of running the .exe which Toshiba provdes for the driver, I just went to display settings - advanced and used the update driver and pointed it to the folder where the nvidia .exe and drivers were. no problem at all.

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

KY — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:20:37 GMT

Hi Paul,

Thanks for a great write-up! It helped so much! I was getting close to throwing this thing out the window. The CD it came with can now be used as a coaster.

Thanks again!

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Jorge — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:30:23 GMT

Hello,

Is it possible to extend the range of an wireless signal that has PAP or CHAP authentication?

Thank you

re: Vista Ultimate with nVidia Go5200 - there is hope!

Gordon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:39:13 GMT

Got my Satellite M30 running with Aero on Windows 7 Beta using your method - thanks!

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Netman66 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:24:09 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Sorry about the delay. It's a normal patch cable - not a crossover.

Don't use the setup wizard. Basically, that's why I wrote this - the wizard leaves a lot to be desired.

Paul

Step 2 - provided patch cord?

Jeff — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:02:05 GMT

I bought mine from a guy off of Craigslist and obviously he gave up too! My device is right next to my router, still the setup wizard says it cant find it!

The box is missing the "provided patch cable".

Is this a crossover or standard cable?

Thanks for the tutorial!

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Kristopher E.J. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:15:05 GMT

I really don't understand the need to disable security on your router then re-enable it later - this makes no sense.

With mine, I simply followed the instructions provided with it to connect via patch cord. I then proceeded to configure it to match my network and security settings, saved, and I was done.

Additionally: once configured, you can simultaneously use it as a wireless bridge... Meaning, you can put it in your office upstairs where the wireless signal isn't so great to give you better coverage upstairs - then plug in your desktop PC to get a connection without having to add a wireless card or run a cable to it!

Plug your PC into the same port used when configuring it - if it's setup correctly to your wireless network, your PC with DHCP enabled will be able to connect to your network as if you had ran a cable to it.

Just be aware that if you're doing any large file copying on your local network it will obviously be slower than with a wired connection.

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Netman66 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:45:17 GMT

Thanks JD! I had the same frustration as you did, thus I created the Tutorial to save others the grief.

I'm sorry you didn't find it sooner!

Paul

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

JD — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:35:02 GMT

Paul, Great tutorial! You are right throw away the CD and the Linksys docs. After spending a Saturday morning attempting to install this device I finally Googled the model number. Yours was the fourth posting I read through and the only one that made sense. Thanks so much for saving me the hundred bucks I almost threw away. -JD

re: Large drive upgrade - Toshiba M30

Netman66 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:00:40 GMT

Yes, putting in a drive bigger than 120GB is a waste of money.

Upgrade to 2GB - it's cheap and will be best.

Paul

re: Large drive upgrade - Toshiba M30

Dinesh — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:45:56 GMT

HI, i have the same M30 model. My harddisk is 40GB. I was planning to put 160GB or more, but after reading this, does it mean that only 120GB is the max that can be supported?

One more thing, my ram is currently 512MB. I'm planning to upgrade to 2GB. What do you thnk?

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Netman66 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:41:06 GMT

Hi Marc,

I haven't seen that issue before. Did you ensure to turn off any Encryption (WEP, WPA) before you attempted to join the WRE54G to the existing Wireless Router? You made the SSID the same?

Are you attempting to extend a current Linksys router or another brand?

Paul

re: Installing and Configuring the Linksys WRE54G

Marc Duponcheel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:44:29 GMT

Hi Paul,

So you eventually managed to give the WRE54G a wired address on the LAN (192.168.1.2 in your example)?

My private LAN is 192.168.168/24 an when I give the WRE54G a wired address on the LAN then all hosts get confused and the switches blink all ports continuously.

It would be cool to be able to surf to the WRE54G on the LAN (say with address 192.168.168.252) but that brings down my LAN

Any suggestion?

re: Large drive upgrade - Toshiba M30

Netman66 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:21:24 GMT

Sorry Stepan - site issues blocked your comment.

The drive has nothing to do with what the actual BIOS in the machine can see. Formatting it in a 48-bit LBA machine doesn't do anything for you once it's in the M30. Unless Toshiba updates the BIOS it isn't going to happen - at least not to put Vista on. You *might* have luck using the drive manufacturer's disk utility to put a drive overlay on it. Any other OS except Vista and Server 2008 should not alter this overlay and allow your full drive to be used.

Paul

re: Large drive upgrade - Toshiba M30

stepan kana — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:28:35 GMT

Paul, does this mean that there's no way to get the toshiba satellite pro M30 to recognize harddrive bigger than 137GB? What if the drive is formatted in a machine that *does* support 48-bit LBA first? Or is microsoft windows still using BIOS to access the harddrive for anything more than during the startup? (Kindly CC potential reply to stepan.kana.at.gmail.com. Thanks).

re: Vista Ultimate with nVidia Go5200 - there is hope!

Gaston DASSIEU-BLANCHET — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:11:49 GMT

Worked like a charm on my Satellite M30. Thanks a lot dude!

re: Number 2 to arrive Monday.

Nirmal Sharma — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:52:40 GMT

Best of luck, man !

Cheers

SystmProg.

re: Vista Ultimate with nVidia Go5200 - there is hope!

Hal — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:39:08 GMT

Can anyone please help? I have a Toshiba P25-S609 with the Nvidia FX Go5200.

I tried to follow the exact instruction here but my original factory .inf file has 4 lines of text rather than one. I do not know if I am supposed to copy them all into the Vista .inf file and if so, where exactly do I paste them? I have things in my string that are quite different from the examples above. The 4 ,ines in my factory .inf are:

[NVIDIA.Mfg]

%NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.2% = nv4_NV34_BTQ00, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_031A&SUBSYS_FF001179

%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1% = nv4_NV34_BTQ00, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0324&SUBSYS_FF001179

%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_032D.1% = nv4_NV34_BTQ00, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_032D&SUBSYS_FF001179

%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0325.1% = nv4_NV34_BTQ00, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0325&SUBSYS_FF001179

re: Large drive upgrade - Toshiba M30

Robin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:04:43 GMT

Great stuff! I just killed my M30 HDD by dropping the computer on the floor--clever me--and I have been worried about upgrading to almost exactly the same drive and about whether the Toshiba recovery disks would work. You've solved both, ta very much indeed.