Toshiba Equium A200-1V0

[James_478]

Okay, I've been searching the web for nearly 2 hours and I can't find a fix for my problem.

I am trying to get the WiFi working on my Toshiba Equium A200-1V0.

I am using iPC 10.5.6 fully updated.

I have installed the drivers from the disc and also tried the ones from Realtek's website all to get nothing.

Whn loading the WLAN software it loads, bounces and then continues to bounce then becomes none-responsive. It is using the Realtek 8187B chipset.

I have been told that i have to edit the info.plist in the Realtek software. I can do this fine, but I have no idea what parts to edit or what to change the values too :(

System Profiler says this:

Product ID: 0x8197
Vendor ID: 0x0bda (Realtek Semiconductor Corp.)
Version: 2.00
Serial Number: 00e04c000001
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Manufacturer_Realtek
Location ID: 0xfd600000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500

Please, any suggestions or a fix would be great :)

On another note, the Touchpad; is there any way to get this thing working like a touchpad, I want to be able to use it as a button, I don't like pressing the buttons all the time lol. This isn't really to bad ad I can learn and live with the buttons but any one knowing this would be a plus :D


James

[hartleydavid]

Hi, I know this is old but did you get your A200-1V0 to work? I've got the same and I can't get the WiFi to work. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[jaybizzle]

I know this is old aswell. But for the archive, and for whoever is googling this.

I have the same laptop and I'm now runnin 10.5.5 (haven't bothered to try to update any further)

The fix to get wireless to work is to get ahold of the realtek 8187b drivers (from their site on another computer or from whatever distro of osx86 you are using, it seems to be common).

Then you have to change the device id from 33161 to 33175 in Info.plist (which can be found in RTL8187Bl.kext/). Then do kextload RTL8187Bl.kext and a dialog should pop up saying a new ethernet was found...

Hope this is to use for anybody.

Everything seems to run just fine and dandy on this laptop. Typing this from osx. The only issue I have left to resolve is the touchpad not reacting to the "touch"-clicks. But it's a minor issue anyway.

EDIT: Doh, it's a setting under System Preferences - Keyboard & Mouse - Trackpad. Enable Trackpad gestures - Clicking

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