Thinkpad 11a/b/g mPCI card driver?

[AuroraGuy]

Ok...so I ordered (and received) this card.

IBM box labeled 40Y7026
machine boots fine.
no bios complaints.
XP SP2 sees the card
and thats as far as I got.

It is NOT permitting the driver to install...if I run the setup, it runs and exits and tells me to reboot (which I do) and still "new hardward found"

If I try and point the device mangler at the .inf file area under the extracted driver tree...it still says NO.

I think the issue COULD be that the current driver is for 11a/b/g/n and I only have the 11a/b/g

This is the driver I am trying to install....
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66449

I am very versed with XP and know how to do things, but in this case it's acting like i have the WRONG driver!

Help?

-JD

[AuroraGuy]

So I dug. I found this file:

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

and it works......so I am puzzled why a driver for the wifi card that WORKS isnt in the page for the laptop itself?

-JD

[DAH]

Could it have something to do with the fact that you have a 40Y7026 which is a Lenovo ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter and not a 11a/b/g/n card, and that the first driver was for a Wireless LAN ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n card? While the second was for a:

- IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II
- IBM 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI adapter
- ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter
- ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter

or the card that you actually have?

[GomJabbar]

This is the second time this has come up. Hopefully Lenovo will get this sorted out soon.

[AuroraGuy]

So...does anyone have a source for a more up to date driver?

The best driver I could come up with that would properly work with my 802.11a/b/g (not n) was version 5.3.0.35

PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_1014 seems to be the issue with install.
The inf files for the current shipping driver do not include this device ID and as such the current driver fails install.

-JD

[deforest]

5.3.0.35 is the latest version of the 802.11a/b/g (not n) card.