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herbertw · #1 Post by **herbertw** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:57 am

Has anyone solved the problem, that access connections is unable to turn on/off the wireless network adapter (its only about the adapter, LED switching is fine)? Please help, I allready reinstalled XP... it just won't work...

Thanks!

herbertw · #2 Post by **herbertw** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:15 pm

no one?

byron · #3 Post by **byron** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:40 pm

i've never seen this with the a/b/g card that i now have (just swapped out my 2200bg for a a/b/g). this is the very same reason i tossed my 2200bg card... hopefully i don't see what you're seeing. search for 2200bg and different combinations of "power" "unable" "802.1x"... there are tons of unresolved and mixed results... i never could figure out the rhyme or reason... i would magically get it to work, but i could never produce the same results two times.

christopher_wolf · #4 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:20 pm

Hmmm, it seems that a significant portion of people are experiencing this problem with a variety of Wireless Cards...Perhaps this is actually a driver issue?

herbertw · #5 Post by **herbertw** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:47 pm

I don't have the Intel-wireless card. I did a search on the part-number and definitly have an ibm a/b/g II Mini-PCI system (thats why my system doesnt respond in any way to the intel-drivers, while doing so with the ibm drivers). All my trying was on an absolute clean XP Prof. with SP2 system (not from the recovery partition). I really tried hard, but had no success. In my opinion it seems to have something to do with microsofts "cable guy" connection software, which keeps the adapter alive, but i am not sure....

Greetings

byron · #6 Post by **byron** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:01 pm

ya... i knew you didn't have an intel card... i was just saying that most of the people having these problems were using the 2200BG intel card.

For what it's worth, when I had these problems I unintsalled access connections, wireless drivers, hotkey features/drivers and power management drivers.. then reinstall them (PM drivers/hotkey/wifi drivers, then reboot, then install AC). Sometimes I had to reintsall the wireless drivers again over the previous.... like I said, I never could figure out the why/how to any of this, nor could I find the exact combination to fix it.

Good luck.

FYI.... don't bother wasting your time calling IBM support on this, I've tried on more than one occasion and they are clueless.

christopher_wolf · #7 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:02 pm

Try this; open up Thinkpad Configuration and click on "Add-On Devices," then click around all the devices to find the Wireless Card...there should be an entire hardware profile that lists the driver state and characteristics of the card. There should be a variety of settings that you can change to fix/optimize it in the Device Manager Windows it brings up.

herbertw · #8 Post by **herbertw** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:19 pm

Thank you very much for your answers... When I click around in Thinkpad configuration the only optinions I get are those, which I also get within the Microsoft-framework. I don't think that they affect the communications between the AC and the driver (XP is able to manage those).

Greetings

stangri · #9 Post by **stangri** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:30 pm

not sure if that's related, but I'll chip in -- I've had some problems with the latest intel drivers for 2915 card, I've had to roll back from the latest (september or november -- can't recall) driver to the previous one (april-may). maybe try that too.

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