HOW2 Upgrade T40 (2373-92u) from 802.11 A/B to 802.11 ABG II

[dpleva64]

Hello all and TIA for the help.

I hava a T40 (2373-92u) with the internal 802.11 AB mPCI and wanted to upgrade to the 802.11 ABG II (73P4301) mPCI. According to the website this card was supposed to work in my unit. I purchased last year and ran into this same problem and shelved it until I could rebuild my OS (winXP) since I assumed I had a Registry fragmentation problem. I had a Bunch o crap on the3 machine.

The Problem:

the newly installed mPCI card has the usual "!" in the device manager and states it is not working due the the fact it cannot allocate enough free resources (code 12).

This systems was just re-installed fresh with the IBM recovery CD's e.g. a fresh OPsys... little in the way of SW installed. I've gone through the sw updating and upgraded from the SP1 the CD's installed to SP2. I just updated the BIOS to latest greatest from IBM/Lenova.

How Did I approach the Install:

I uninstalled the old 802.11 AB device from the Device Manager. - Powered down the unit.

Removed the card. -- Rebooted and checked the device manager (listing hidden device drivers etc.)

Powered Down and Installed the 802.11 ABG II mPCI card.

Rebooted and installed the drivers... after rebooted... and checked the Device Manager.... "!" Error.

I've tried to update the drivers from the website; I disabled the Modem to possibly free resources; removed the 512MB Ram; PULLED Copious amounts of Hair and sacrificed them to the ThinkVantage Gods... etc. I even updated the BIOS to most recent.... No Dice

I have scoured this forum with no success. I haven' tried the ATHEROS drivers mentioned in one post but am willing to try at this point.


Any Advice at this point would be Very much appreciated.

TIA. Big Dave

[jongordo8]

Well I have that card in my T40 and install was a snap.

Here is what I suggest.

1)Update to latest bios.

2)Download latest IBM ABG drivers from IBM and Access connections

3)Make sure all wireless drivers are uninstalled.

4)Reboot and Install IBM ABG drivers

5)Install ABG card

6) see if that works

good luck

[underclocker]

Interesting and unforturnate.

I would try removing the battery and CMOS battery for about an hour, then installing both and turning on the machine. This might unscramble a BIOS setting that was causing the problem. At the very least, you'll be back to IBM default BIOS settings.

Good luck and please report back the results.

underclocker

[det922]

i think it also might be a bios thing, check it out and set it to auto as its not normally set that way