RE: [Thinkpad] t23 wireless mini pci card not seen as wireless?

Much easier to read now, thanks. :-)

It sounds like your friend has some wireless driver/utility package left
over from his Windows 2000 installation, and that is taking over instead of
the built-in Windows XP support.

I would try this:

1) Use System Restore to set a restore point.

2) Uninstall all wireless client software and drivers.

3) Reboot Windows and let it detect the wireless card and install its own
drivers.

-Mike

> From: James Haddock
>
> Sorry... should have been clear in the original message...
>
> Both machines are running Windows XP Pro... the only difference I'm
> aware of is the my machine has a clean install while my buddies machine
> was upgraded from Windows 2000...
>
> Apologies also for the text coloring issue... should be better now.
>
> Cheers,
> -James

> From: Michael Geary
>
> You are running Windows XP. What version of Windows is your
> friend running?
> Only XP has the built-in wireless support.
>
> For previous versions of Windows, you can download IBM Access Connections
> from their website.
>
> -Mike
>
> p.s. Could you set your email client to send plain text instead of HTML?
> That rust-colored text is a bit hard to read. Thanks!

> > From: James Haddock
> >
> > A friend was bugging me about how hard a time he had using his t23
> > on multiple wireless networks since he has to change the configuration
> > for each one (wep keys and such) each time he changes networks using
> > some utility (I don't recall exactly which one)...
> >
> > This confused me since on my x24 I just have both my home and work
> > networks listed in my "preferred networks" list on the
> 'wireless networks"
> > tab of the wireless network connection properties pop-up, and for each I
> > have separate wep key properties...
> >
> > I asked my friend why he didn't do the same thing and he
> replied by asking
> > me to show him how...
> >
> > That's where I got really confused... his t23 also has the
> > builtin wireless
> > minipci combo card... but the network connection attached to the card is
> > not a wireless connection but instead a regular "local area connection"
> > (as tho it thinks its a wired connection)...
> >
> > So the card works, but since the system doesn't think its a wireless
> > connection, there is no "wireless networks" tab on the connection props.
> >
> > We tried removing and reinstalling the device but get the same thing.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas? This isn't I suppose super critical to
> > fix, but is at the very least quite a nuisance...
>

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Received on Wed Aug 6 13:33:05 2003