R32 Wireless Mini PCI upgrade to b/g

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w5tx · #1 Post by **w5tx** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:24 am

MY first post so hopefully not old news. I have just upgraded my R32 to 802.11 b/g with an Ambit card with NO hassle. Did not get 1802 error or 01C9 error. Upgraded to latest BIOS and latest Access Connections and Lenovo wireless driver for R50. Not a single hitch. Using XP on 2659-N3U with 768M RAM, 120G Fujitsu 5400 HD from Fry's. The Ambit card was obtained on ebay and either of the following apparently identify the card-- T60H786-U or FRU 39T0073.

darbyflier · #2 Post by **darbyflier** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:05 am

Thanks for the info that is helpful and great to know. I just bought a refurb R40 2682-K2U (P4M 2.2g). I am going to try just what you did with an IMB b/g card fru#39T0073. I will post results when I receive them in a week or so. After that more ram! ( I only will have 256 to start)

w5tx · #3 Post by **w5tx** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:18 pm

Just a follow up note that if I had read the info on the latest bios I would have discovered that the b/g cards had been added. I installed another card in my wife's R32 and had not installed the new bios and got the 1802 and 01c9 message. New bios fixed.

darbyflier · #4 Post by **darbyflier** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:28 pm

Okay, so I successfully installed the 39T0073 in my R40 and am able to connect. I got no errors, but if I use Fn + F5 to toggle I get a message that "IBM Wireless adapters (802.11 or Bluetooth) are not installed on this system"

Is there a different or better driver to get this functionality?

I used this driver

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-52527

I have bios 1.27 and embed. controller 1.14

Thanks!

hakantr20 · #5 Post by **hakantr20** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:35 pm

w5tx wrote:Just a follow up note that if I had read the info on the latest bios I would have discovered that the b/g cards had been added. I installed another card in my wife's R32 and had not installed the new bios and got the 1802 and 01c9 message. New bios fixed.

Hi.
I have also R32. But I couldn't get rid of these two messages. No-1802 method is not working on R32s. Is it really enough to update the bios for passing this problem.

Thanks...

darbyflier · #6 Post by **darbyflier** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:45 am

Well, I did a Software Installer update on my system and the right drivers must have shown up. My b/g card works perfectly and the fn F5 also works great too now. I did update the embed. controller and bios before installing the card.

Now if I can fix my battery charge problem........