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Hi,
My laptop was working perfectly fine with internet. I would connect wirelessly with no issue. One day my laptop stop working with wireless. It said local only. I didn't worry, i had fixed this issue before by adding the IP, DNS, and Gateway manually. This time when i added it, it still said local only. Then i couldn't even open up firefox. I went to go plug in ethernet. When i did, the lights went on, i turned off wireless, and it still said local only. It used to always work before but now it doesn't work at all! I also asked windows to diagnose it and it couldn't. I decided to install a new copy of Vista onto a different petition. When it was finished, it doesn't have any of the drivers. Not wireless, nor ethernet. Any suggestions on either. I plan to use the second petition. please help. I have a toshiba satellite a355d. also, if it's possible, how to i move the ethernet driver to the other petition?

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Brief diagnosis and where to start (ties to earlier replies)
— the symptoms point to one of three things: missing or wrong drivers, a disabled radio/hardware switch, or a corrupted Windows network stack. ’s intuition about a hardware radio toggle is common; ’s reinstall idea can work, but reinstalling the OS won’t restore missing vendor drivers by itself. Focus first on confirming whether the adapters are visible to the system and then on installing the correct driver packages for the OS you plan to use.

Practical checks and quick fixes

  1. From an elevated Command Prompt gather network state:
    ipconfig /all
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset

    Restart after the netsh commands. If adapters show an APIPA address (169.254.x.x) DHCP failed. Check Services (services.msc) and ensure DHCP Client is running. Look in Device Manager for “Unknown device” or yellow icons. Open an adapter’s Properties → Details → Hardware Ids (VEN/DEV) and use that ID to download the exact driver for your Windows bitness.

How to install drivers offline and test hardware
On a second machine, get the official vendor driver package and copy it to removable media or the other partition. On the target install, either run the vendor setup or in Device Manager choose Update Driver → Browse my computer → point to the extracted folder (or use Add Legacy Hardware if the adapter isn’t listed). If both wired and wireless still fail, boot a Linux live USB to confirm hardware functionality: if Linux sees the NICs, it’s a Windows/driver problem; if not, suspect a hardware/switch issue. Use vendor drivers matching 32/64‑bit, install chipset drivers before network drivers, and avoid unsigned or generic drivers.

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Download the drivers if you want to use the other partition, it could be simply having your wireless turned off accidentally on the keyboard?

Simply download a driver from a different computer put it on a flash drive and install it onto the other partition.

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It may be a problem with your drivers or the act of some Virus, the best is to format and reinstall your OS. This time your will surely be able to connect to the internet.

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