LAN firmware on Toshiba?

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I'm installing my Win7 64 Pro purchased OS and key onto my mother's laptop. It is a Toshiba. The issue is there is no internet connection via Ethernet port. I'm assuming it's from Toshiba injecting the Realtek LAN port with their own firmware crap and that's why it won't accept the drivers from the fresh Windows 7 64b install. I've been through device manager and tried updating the driver that way and no luck. I would rather the microsoft supplied driver than installing the Toshiba drivers. With the install it should of happened. The device is activated via bios. Any idea what's going on? Can the firmware be changed to the latest from Realtek?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I wasn't aware that ethernet controller chips had much in the way of internal firmware, nor could be updated.

Just because Windows 7 64-bit includes "RealTek LAN" drivers, doesn't mean that they work with all motherboards. I have some older P35 Gigabyte S775 boards, that the out-of-box Windows 7 RealTek drivers works with. I have some newer boards, also with "RealTek LAN", that require installing the mobo mfg's "RealTek LAN driver".

So if Toshiba has a "LAN driver" for that laptop / board, and Win7's out-of-box driver doesn't work with it, then why not just install it?

Unless the port is broken, I don't see the issue?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yeah. If the device is too new, Win7 won't have a driver for it. Install the one from Toshiba.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

It makes sense when you realize the product came out after windows 7 for the drivers not to be on the disc. That's the only thing I could think of.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It makes sense when you realize the product came out after windows 7 for the drivers not to be on the disc. That's the only thing I could think of.

Pretty much. Windows 7 came out in '09. If the laptop is older than that, it's time for a new laptop.