lost wireless after WWAN attempt

I have a new T61. Works great. The wireless card has been working flawlessly.

Today I attempted to activate the built-in Verizon WWAN. My old laptop used an aircard, and I thought maybe the turn-on wizard would be smart enough to allow me to transfer service. No such luck. It timed out upon attempting to contact the network, so I gave up, and will go to the VZ store tomorrow.

But now my wireless will not work. I have tried everything. I have disabled the WWAN card. I have disabled/enabled the wireless card. Attempted Repair. Rebooted over & over.

According to Device Manager, it works fine. But when I attempt to View Avail Networks, it can find no wireless networks. But my old laptop (which I am typing on now), can find several networks.

What did I do? Something in the WWAN (attempted) activation process killed the wireless, but I can't revive it. I have made sure the WWAN card is disabled, and powered off, and there doesn't appear to be any VZnetwork software running that would interfere.

Help!

Stuart
Houston

 

the VZAccess manager will attempt to take over your wireless also..

run the VZaccess manager wizzard (under options) and when you get to it.. select "detect WWAN device only" then finish the wizzard.

also the forums over at http://www.evdoinfo.com will help out a lot for evdo stuff

 

Thanks, I'll try that!

 

There are a couple of things......

It's not just the WWAN card, my lenovo makes WLAN and WWAN mutually exclusive. When WWAN is powered up, the WLAN is powered down and vice version. I would recommend that when things are settled down that you scrap the VZmanager and use a software package called WATCHER by Sierra Wireless. It's on the net and downloadable and it's hard to find but is avaiable. I'll see if I can find the URL

 

Ark Found this for me:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/FI...ess-AirCard-595-PC-Card-Watcher-Utility.shtml

It's really far better than VZmanager.