Several issues on Portege M100

Hello,
Forgive me in advance if this sounds a bit sketchy but my hubby is the useful one with these things but as his time is limited with work, I thought I would try and get some help in advance for when he gets home.
I purchased a M100 to take with us on our holidays mainly to just watch DVDs for the kids and some web browsing so didnt need anything fancy or new the guy we got it from has installed Ubuntu 9.10 Linux.
The main problem we are having is
1. We cant connect to the internet, the wireless LED light on top is still amber (I presume it should be green once all is well and connected), even though my husband has done the usual things that has connected our other 3 laptops to the wireless. He downloaded the user manual and it states to activate the wireless to press shift+F8, but this doesnt seem to be doing anything.
2. We cant play DVDs, the guy we got if from says he burned a CD from it, but when we asked about watching DVDs he said he didnt try any to know, when we insert the DVD it says we have to download a codex, which hubby is fine with doing if he could connect to the internet.
I hope all that made sense Please advice on what we could do
Many thanks

Portege M100 is pretty old notebook model and definitely not supported for Linux operating system so if you want to use all functions described in users manuals you must use supported WXP.
What you should do is to install operating system using original recovery installations CDs.
Did you get them with your notebook?
If you don't have them install WXP using original Microsoft WXP installations disc. All necessary drivers, tools and utilities you can download from Toshiba support page under http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp
If you need right installations order list please let us know.

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>In my opinion some hardware designer didn't do his work properly
OK it is your opinion but you must also understand that hardware designers do not have easy job. As you know almost every month we can read about new technology or about some new features. We have now new OS Vista. This OS uses more resources than older WXP. The hardware must be adapted to new Microsoft requirements. If you see the notebook design you will agree with me that Portege R500 is really nice business notebook. Small and you can take it everywhere. So powerful hardware is placed into extremely small enclosure.
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