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Last August I installed the Atheros Wireless ABGN card (FRU: 42T0825) in my T60p. I don't remember if I attempted to install a driver/software at the time, but I got it working and haven't had any issues.

I just noticed that my event log has DHCP errors quite frequently and they started in August of last year! So it seems related to this new wireless card:

Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0x001558C348B2. The following error occurred: 0x79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.

In device manager -> network adapters it lists:
"11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter"
and the driver is listed as: Atheros Communications Inc, 6/9/2009, 2.0.0.75 version

On Lenovo's website I found this for the T60p:
"Intel Wireless LAN (bg, abg, abgn) for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad"
with version 14.03.0000 from 7/17/2012

I installed it successfully, but after restarting the T60p my wireless adapter is still listed with the old Atheros driver.

Just trying to get the error to stop in event manager. What driver should I be using here and why doesn't this new one seem to work for me?

Thanks!

get the matching driver here: http://atheros.cz

Thanks, I just installed "Atheros driver 10.0.0.313 for AR5008". Hope I picked the right one.

bring up a command prompt window and type

ipconfig /all

In the text you will see the mac address of your wireless card and your wired LAN adapter. Then you can match it up to the message you got. That will tell you that it is indeed the wireless card, not the wired LAN adapter.

ac12 wrote:bring up a command prompt window and type

ipconfig /all

In the text you will see the mac address of your wireless card and your wired LAN adapter. Then you can match it up to the message you got. That will tell you that it is indeed the wireless card, not the wired LAN adapter.

So the physical address of the "ethernet adapter local area connection" actually matches the network address in the error. But the wireless card lists a DHCPv6 client DUID that ends with that same address (that's what I had looked at before). Is that expected?
I am still getting the error, so maybe I should try updating the ethernet driver too?