It is, in fact, a driver problem. There are four drivers that have to be loaded in order for Access Connections to work properly (see step a. below...). I spent several hours on the phone one night with tech support. I had installed a 3rd party network management system and it screwed up my Access Connections...wireless radio would not turn on from the FN-F5 menu. Here is the text from the email they sent me....long and tedious, but it worked for me....
Please follow the steps below exactly to resolve wireless issues.
Type: 7662-CTO T61 DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE: Document id: MIGR-67853
a. Download the following drivers/software and save the files to your desktop. Please enter the following document number in the search field of
www.lenovo.com and save the following files on the desktop.
Power Management: Document id: MIGR-4GXPEG
Hot Key, Document ID: MIGR-68000
wireless card driver: Document ID: MIGR-52527
Access Connections: Document id: MIGR-4ZLNJB
b. Uninstall the previous drivers/software from add/remove programs.
1. Click Start and click Control Panel,
2. Select Add or Remove Programs,
4. After each Uninstall you will be asked to Restart... choose "Restart Later" - Uninstall Thinkvantage Access Connections and location profiles, ThinkPad Wireless LAN Adapters Software (11a/b, 11b/g, 11a/b/g) or the Intel Wireless software, ThinkPad Power Management driver (PM driver), On Screen Display and FullScreen Magnifier.
5. Reboot Machine after all have been removed.
c. Install Power Management driver from the extracted folder. (Example:C:\DRIVERS\WIN\IBMPM\SETUP.EXE)
1. Extract this package by double-clicking the downloaded file.
2. Click start and click My computer
3. Click C:\ Drive
4. Click "Drivers" folder
5. Click "WIN" folder
6. Click "IBMPM" folder
7. Click "Setup.exe"
8. Restart later
d. Install Hot Key Utility from the extracted folder.
(Example: C:\DRIVERS\WIN\HOTKEY\SETUP.EXE /S)
1. Extract and install by double-clicking the downloaded file.
2. Click start and click My computer
3. Click C:\ Drive
4. Click "Drivers" folder
5. Click "WIN" folder
6. Click "HOTKEY" folder
7. Click "Setup.exe"
8. Restart later
e. Install The Wireless driver from the extracted folder. (C:\DRIVERS\WIN\WLLANATH\SETUP.EXE)
1. Extract this package by double-clicking the downloaded file.
2. Click start and click My computer
3. Click C:\ Drive
4. Click "Drivers" folder
5. Click "WIN" folder
6. Click "WLLANATH" folder
7. Click "SETUP.EXE"
8. Restart later
*** After setup completes try and Test FN+F5. 802.11 Wireless card should be in panel and you should be able to change the power state on/off.
f. If able to change power state, install Access Connections (A.C.) from the extracted folder. (C:\DRIVERS\W2K\ACCON\SETUP.EXE)
** Note: if you only delete A.C. in some cases the Admin flag for restricting profile creation may be set. If this occurs, uninstall A.C. and profiles as mentioned above in the control panel steps. Then reinstall. Recreate profiles including any security protocols required by the routers they are connecting to.
1. Extract this package by double-clicking the downloaded file.
2. Click start and click My computer
3. Click C:\ Drive
4. Click "Drivers" folder
5. Click "W2K" folder
6. Click "ACCON" for windows XP or "Vista" for Windows Vista
7. Click "SETUP.EXE"
8. Restart Computer
* Test FN+F5 (should work) and then try to connect to router through A.C.
Good luck!
Royce Engler
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
