Wireless Issues Will NOT connect to other WIRELESS ROUTERS

[furiousmonkey]

I am trying to figure out my friends T30, (By the way, these are beautiful machines, even with one memory slot)

It will only access the wireless internet on the router at home, and even then it takes a while.

We were on the road and could not connect to any other wireless routers.

I ran SAFEMODE in winxp, went to the device config and it listed about 10 network cards, some of which had been installed previously and others where just duplicates.

So I went to remove them. Got this message.

Failed to unistall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer.

Well, I thought this was easy, I booted into the bios, and removed the option to boot from lan, and wake on lan.

It did nothing to fix the problem.

I have the latest BIOS from Thinkpad.

Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

[RealBlackStuff]

Is this the same machine in your other post about error 1802?

[furiousmonkey]

Nope, this is the other T30, I am working on two this morning, the other problem was fixed with that LINUX BOOT DISK.

This problem is NOT coming up with the error, in the bios when you turn it on, only in SAFEMODE does it list the 10 or 15 network adapters, without being able to remove, them.

The BOOTABLE LINUX disc I burned to fix the other problem has a patch for the 01C9 error. I think that it could fix the issue I am having with the many network adapters, but I am unsure of which one to select from the list?

The internal wireless card on that T30 is the IBM Highrate Wireless Mini-PCI Adapter with Modem II

A little confused now.

Thanks

[RealBlackStuff]

Go into Device Manager and tick the option to show hidden items.
You should be able to remove/uninstall them from there.

[furiousmonkey]

The device manager, does not let me unstall the devices.

Failed to unistall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer.

That is the error message I get when I try to unistall the unused devices.

[tfflivemb2]

What card are you using? I had a problem with a B2100 card that refused to connect to G routers...

[furiousmonkey]

I figured out the problem.

It apparently is one of those, lesser known (or discussed) errors that occur very infrequently.

I found a link to MS, that explains how to remove it.

I have a link, to MS to explain how to remove the "Ghosted" network adapters.

I cannot remember if posting links to outside webpages is allowed
so I wont, but any requests for it and I can add it.

Thanks for the help

[thuur]

I think there is no problem with posting links to solving tech issues


R,

[Peter_Peril]

I think there is no problem with posting links to solving tech issues

Yes... share the wealth, it a real pain searching for relevant solutions; guys like you do us all a big service

[RealBlackStuff]

This is what you were looking for:
how to remove the "Ghosted" network adapters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269155

[furiousmonkey]

Thats the one, although method 1 did not work, I had to use method 2.

At first it looked a little confusing, but give your self a second to adjust to the information on the screen.

I had another Thinkpad running the webpage while I figured out what to do on the T30, then again another option would be to print out the webpage instructions.

The other thing I did, to be extra safe, I removed even the current Network card driver, so that the system to reconfigure to it.

As soon as I rebooted the operating system said, one or more netorks are in range.

That never came up before.