Radio on or off . . .

[Wayne]

I have an R-40 purchased refurbed from IBM a couple of years ago. Since it was wireless capable I bought an Intel 2200BG card and got the Intel drivers from Intel. Works perfectly. I notice that there is a wireless off/on key on the keyboard, F5. If I press the Function/F5 I get the message:

Unable to change power state of 802.11 wireless radio.
Update the driver for the wireless adapter.

I have the latest Intel driver. Is there an IBM driver that I'm missing?

BTW, wife has an R-51 with the same wireless adapter that is OEM and the function works on her machine.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Wayne

[beGi]

Try to install hotkey drivers...

[Wayne]

Exactly where I'm going, just found it. But the IBM 303 site is limping right now. Waiting and waiting for the pages to come up.

[Wayne]

No joy. After running the install it showed the package was already installed. Same problem.

[beGi]

This procedure once helped me:

1. Uninstall the wireless driver using Add/Remove Programs
2. Uninstall the Hotkey utility using its Setup program (uninstall is an option in the
Setup app; it doesn't appear in Add/Remove Programs control panel)
3. Restart
4. Delete the Hotkey folders from C:\Program Files\Lenovo\PkgMgr [key step!]
5. Reinstall the Hotkey Utility and the wireless driver (don't reboot if prompted)
6. Restart

I think think that there are few more workarounds on this forum, try to search it...

[Wayne]

Installed the Access Connections utility. At first glance, Voila! Pressed Fn/F5 and got the window for the wireless control.

But.

Access Connections shows no wireless networks in range and there are at least a dozen. Clicking the Radio Off button doesn't work. So it must have to do with my Intel 2200BG radio and it's drivers. As a note, this radio was not allowed by IBM and I had to run the no_1802 utility to change the BIOS bit to allow the radio.

Oh well.