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Access connections can't "see" my wireless card; when I open "manage my connections" it brings up bluetooth but not the wireless. "Find wireless networks" is also grayed out the "Tools" menu. Not sure what is going on, since windows wireless is working just fine. Any ideas? I tried uninstalling and reinstialling AC and the wireless drivers, to no avail.

I happend to have the same problem as yours. Fn+F5 complain cannot enable power state for 802.11 device. Access connection does not detect wireless card. I spent tons of time duirng the past week trying to follow all those sequeces of un-install/re-install. Finally I tried the approach to replace the libeay32.dll under c:\windows with the one under C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin.
It worked!

Well, so far the best approach I can see is to uninstall powe rmanager, hotkey, intel wireless driver, access connection, and then reboot. (You do not need to unstall them one by one , just one step from ibm installer or from control panel)

After reboot, cancel the find new hardware wizard.
Use ibm installer or think advantage system upgrade. It will detect all those components you just uninstalled. and download them install them automatically.

Then go to your c:\windows directory, rename the libeay32.dll to lib32.dll.bak, go to C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin, copy libeay32.dll to c:\windows

Reboot!

You should have all those lovely features of wireless radio/connection control back to you !

Cheers!

This worked! Thanks! Actually, I didn't even need to uninstall and reinstall everything, just changed libea32.dll under Windows to libea32.dll.bak, then copied the libea32.dll under program files/intel/wireless/bin, and everything worked great!