Hi Johny, I use Tenda 11N 150M Wireless USB adaptor with the AKE USB 2.0 cardbus. They work well for me. William Thank you, William. My friend has taken back the notebook. I don't know whether he will buy a USB wireless adapter or will just use an ethernet cable. Of course, a wireless adapter with ...

The Belkin brand is not recommendable at all. Stick with an AKE USB card. You slip it in from the outside into the cardbus slot, and it will fit flush with the side of the X30. You can then plug in your USB2.0 items. BTW, the AKE card you link to Amazon is the WRONG type, you need a rectangular ver...

Hi Johny, If you don't want to disassemble and assemble laptop, I would suggest the following upgrade: 1. Upgrade the existing USB 1.0 on X30 with an AKE 2-port USB 2.0 CarbBus card from ebay for around $6. 2. Buy a G/N wireless USB adaptor for $10-15 to use with the USB 2.0 cardbus. I recommend AK...

Hi Johny, If you don't want to disassemble and assemble laptop, I would suggest the following upgrade: 1. Upgrade the existing USB 1.0 on X30 with an AKE 2-port USB 2.0 CarbBus card from ebay for around $6. 2. Buy a G/N wireless USB adaptor for $10-15 to use with the USB 2.0 cardbus. I recommend AK...

Thank you for your detailed help, RealBlack. Still, my hands-on ability sucks, esp. with mechanical/electronic parts. Will forward this thread to my friend to see if he can do it himself, or have some help from some other friend. Thanks again for all your help, RealBlack and Ron! Admin edit : Remove...

If the X30 is running XP (it will) the Wireless Utility for XP will find the network. Otherwise the cards builder Wireless Utility "normally" has a program that will find it. Regardless of that, a "B" card is the predecessor to the "G" Band. Its about 5 times slower than G. Most "new" wireless rout...

That (ancient) wifi card only works at the B band. Replace it with a more modern BG (like Intel 2200BG) or even an N card such as tp-link wn861n. See also http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=108355 Sorry, but what is a B band card? What's its difference from a more modern card? And the t...

Got the answer: I used the wrong driver. The correct wireless network adapter driver should be "High Rate Wireless LAN Mini PCI combo card driver for Windows 2000 and XP - ThinkPad T30, X30": http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS003235 Still, the wireless network adapter can...

Hello, My friend bought a second-hand Thinkpad X30, which was not not functioning so well. I want to install a Wireless Network Adapter so that he can use it to connect to his wireless router at his home. The problem is, when I went to the lenovo support website, and tried to install the driver from...