Hello

Can you enable wireless LAN on Windows or does it only on Linux not working?

Make sure that the WLAN card is recognized properly in Linux. Then you should be able to activate it using the key combination and the hardware switch on the notebook.

Greets

Was Wifi working when Windows was installed?

Try updating the BIOS of the NB200. Maybe a Wifi issue has been fixed.

There seems to be a BIOS update, but the BIOS update software only runs in Windows XP. Which means, I now have to create a bootable Windows XP USB to install the BIOS update, hoping that it will fix the wifi issue.

By the way, I phoned tech support in Germany and the friendly technician told me that it /should/ work by turning it on in the BIOS, and would not require support for FN/F8 ... which is good news ... except that it /doesn't/ work, at least with my current BIOS.

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Any help toshiba, any help I need to turn my wireless connections on and off.

The wifi nor bluetooth turn off when I press the Fn+F8

Please help !!!!!!!!

If it may help you to feel better: On a new Windows XP based NB 200 the wireless does not work either. First power up, no changes and the wireless symbol remains "black". Pressing Fn + F8 does not help, it just makes another front light light opp while pressed. (A symbol which is the same as the one on F10)

Manual is useless on this point (the suggestion in the manual to enable /disable/repair has no efffect whatsoever) so what do I do to activate the Wireless under ?

Seems to me that the removal of a physical switch for wireless is a bummer by Thosiba...?

Presently A F A I K on Linux there's not key combination that solves the problem, but a little fiddling with the modules will do.
Of course this involves command run as root, so before executing them consider you may damage the system. I will say what I did and not what you should do.
It works for me using the 'omnibook' module on my Ubuntu lucid 32-bit on the nb200 and stock kernel 2.6.32-22. I had no to compile the newer release of the omnibook module code, as many suggest, I just used the one shipped with ubuntu (2.20090707-trunk)

#modprobe omnibook ectype=12

now /proc/omnibook is correctly populated for me

#ls
blank bluetooth display dmi lcd temperature throttling version wifi

and then I issue:
#echo 0 >/proc/omnibook/wifi

to disable the wi-fi adapter

and
#echo 1 >/proc/omnibook/wifi

to enable the wi-fi adapter.
There's no binding for an Hotkey but I could be doable, using xev and gconf-editor on Gnome. So If you can manage it without having a Microsoft OS installed. Of course, before removing it I would try very well if it's correctly working on my system.

See [nb 200 wireless switch http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-316358.html and http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukolndev/2009/08/26/linux-on-a-toshiba-nb200/
Regards,

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