Toshiba Portégé R830 wireless On/Off switch (Fn+F8) not working

Hello...
I have posted this on the Wi-Fi troubleshooting forum, but it's not getting any bites.
Just in case anyone has found a solution, here is the link to the original post:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Port%C3%A9g%C3%A9-Laptops/Booting-with-Wi-Fi-off/td-p/206448
I work for a large coporation and have purchased hundreds of Toshiba Portégé R830s and Toshiba Tecra R850s and we have installed our corporate image on them (Windows XP) and cannot seem to get be able to turn the wireless card on and off using the the Fn+F8 Key Combination. The light is I've attached an image of all the utilities and what order we are installing them in, after installing these utilities it is still not working. Are there additional utilities we should be installing? The model we have has the Intel Wi-Fi chip (not the Atheros one) in it and we are using the latest Intel Wireless LAN Driver from the Toshiba site (14.0.2.2.1.x32_wCAT) . The Wi-Fi light just stays on all the time and we can connect to a wifi hotspot. But, we would like to be able to turn the wireless on and off with the Fn+F8 Key Combination. If anyone can provide any help with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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just to agree you are not alone with that problem
lots of users including me are complaining in the web!
and it's not only your devices where it is not working.
myself never got a sufficient answer either
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Port%C3%A9g%C3%A9-Laptops/R700-Fn-F8-WLan-on-off-nuisance/m-p/185552#M1...
disregard all suggestions to reinstall all software in the 'right order'
whatever that is anyway. its a waste of time.
so I disable it via device manager (despite that the light will stay on!)
shortcut: devmgmt.msc
Toshiba decided to swab from a hardware button to a buggy software switch.
because its ON by default the majority of users do not care/complain.
for that reason Toshiba does not bother to sort that problem properly out
too. they had plenty of time for it already...
regards
Damian

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