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yes i promised you pics but i can not do then when i have not finish my laptop yet


it went through a full format and a plain vanilla of xp pro was installed.
latestest atheros driver from ibm and access connection are installed.

yes the wireless manual hard switch is switched on

yes i do see the green lcd icon below the screen and the device manage does recongnize the atheros presence. accessconnection even sees its mac address

how ever it is listed as radio off. there is a turn radio on button and when i click that nothing happens. it remain radio off.

things i tried:
disable and reable it in device manager
click on find network and when the prompt say it's currently off would you like to turn it on i pick yes and nothing happens.
access connection is installed but nothing happens when fn f5
leaving the switch on before booting windows.
windows wireless zero config is disabled.

all drivers are latest versions.

guys i am running out of ideas. help?

Plain vannilla loads of XP Pro on an X60 is the wrong way to go. You should use the factory preload. XP Is now patched so much by Microsoft and vendors, getting it perfect is a pain. I'm not talking about stuff from SP2 and Windowsupdate.

Separate from your atheros issue, which I hope was the one that came with the T60, be sure to go to this site:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62928

MAKE SURE you download and extract the XP update modules (second to last item)

Then run the Software Installer while connected to the internet, off the same driver matrix.

Sounds like you might not have loaded the hotkey utility.

thanks for the response.
that osfix was selectively installed. the crap like firewire stuff that i do not have were omitted.

patches and stuff are suppose tobe normal. however vendor specific patch are not and where do i obtain them from ibm?

there is one more device that is left unknown, and from device manager it looks like it's something from the acpi bus. the question is that i installed everything there is, including the orginal hidden from os BT and modem and they all work fine.

yes poower management driver for fn f3 and power manager in general are installed. i spec that maybe when i upgrade the ram i loosen something but then again if that is the case it will not regiested as a device in device manager and access connection won't be able to get a mac address and the green led won't be on