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    X40 wireless upgrade snafu

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pipspeak, Jul 2, 2009.

  1. pipspeak

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    I'm hoping someone might have a suggestion to solve this annoying problems I'm having after upgrading the intel 2100 wireless card in an X40 to the 2200BG card.

    Put the new card in last night and upgraded the intel driver set, power management driver and hotkey driver and it all worked well with Windows Zero Config. Connected fine and worked fine. But Access Connections did not want to play ball (nothing new there).

    So this morning I uninstalled everything and started again in the correct order (power management, hotkey, intel) after updating the bios first. But at the end of the intel installation I got a "wireless management service has encountered a problem" message. Ignored that and the intel software installation completed OK.

    Now, however, nothing works. Windows ZC says it's connected, but it isn't (no internet connection and no evidence of the computer on the router). Upon startup, I get that "wireless management service has encountered a problem" message again. Moreover, the Fn. F5 hotkey to turn the wireless radio on and off doesn't work either --tells me I need to update the wireless card driver, even though I have the latest driver available for that card and one that is easily new enough for the power management driver version.

    What's going on? I'm at a loss. Is this possibly a problem with the wireless card itself?
     
    pipspeak, Jul 2, 2009
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