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    Need help after reinstalling XP on Lenovo T61

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by fittipaldi, Feb 8, 2008.

  1. fittipaldi

    fittipaldi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,
    I have a Lenovo T61 laptop. I just reinstalled XP and have one problem: when I go to "Access Connection" (Fn+F5) there is no switch to stop the wifi, just for the Bluetooth. How to add one for wifi?!

    Please help, thanks in advance.
     
    fittipaldi, Feb 8, 2008
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    Did you follow the clean install guide sticky on this forum. If not I suggest you reinstall following the guide
     
    gamemint, Feb 8, 2008
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    Of course I won't reinstall, that's a stupid solution of windows users - if a problem pops up, the typical windows user will surely find a new guide and reinstall, instead of trying to solve the problem!
     
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    But a problem could be that you missed something mentioned in the guide.

    Do you have any unknown drivers in your Device Manager.
     
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    No, everything in the dev.man. is ok (now, at first i had some yellow marks, but now is ok).
     
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    Did you make sure you installed everything in the guide? Did you install the Hotkey drivers?
     
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    That's actually not true. I've never installed Access Connections and it works fine for me. Shows the black windowed application with the option to turn either radios on or off.
     
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    Must depend on the radio then. I have an Intel Pro whatever AGN wireless card and I need to have Access Connections installed in order to control both wireless and Bluetooth with the Fn+F5 combo, otherwise I get a pop-up stating that it can't manually turn off/on the wireless radio, only Bluetooth.
     
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    I have installed access connections (I tell you that I can start it and it has a bluetooth btn, but not one for wifi) and I have also installed hotkeys (all of them work properly).
     
    fittipaldi, Feb 9, 2008
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    I had this exact same problem with a new T61 after clean installing XP.

    My solution was that you must install the FULL Intel ProSet software (not just the drivers). So under DRIVERS\Win\WLANINT2\XP\Apps\x32\iProInst.exe you need to install the PROSet/Wireless option and not just install it from Device Manager and browse to the WLANINT2\XP\Drivers folder.

    The Access Connection software is not needed.
     
    qualton, Jun 19, 2008
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