PCMCIA & Ethernet Adapter for R51

[mvramsubbu]

Dear all,

I have a Think pad R51 2889 HQ2 Model. I wanted to clean install XP and unfortunately I lost recovery disk. I formatted HDD and installed XP. I'm having trouble installing Ethernet and PCMCIA adapter drivers. I visited Lenovo site and downloaded all available drivers for this bu no use. In lenovo driver site it says driver for PCMCIA adapter is bundled in Operating system.
I wanted to use Linksys adapter for wireless network.
Can anyone help me out in getting drivers for my laptop model?

Thanks in Advance

[goofyGAguy]

Is your Linksys adapter part number WPC11? If so, I could e-mail the driver to you.

[mvramsubbu]

Linksys Notebook Adapter
Model: WPC54G ver4.
I could not even find driver for this version in Linksys site.
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/APAC/en/s ... G/download
Drivers are available for versions 1, 2 , 3, 5 & 7...
Ver 4 driver is missing....

[mvramsubbu]

Can anyone provide or give a link for original driver for
IBM Thinkpad R51 2889 HQ2

[goofyGAguy]

Read the following link. It may shed some light on your problem...


http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/8287 ... ndows.html

[mvramsubbu]

I contacted live support of Linksys and asked for missing driver for Wireless adapter V4 and they added... Please see http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/sup ... G/download

[mvramsubbu]

Linksys driver is not working out for me... though it is the perfect driver for that adapter... I'm having problem with my laptop itself. Lenovo site says PCMCIA adapter is included in OS. If i get driver for my PCMCIA slot it will surely work out.

[RealBlackStuff]

There are no separate drivers for PCMCIA, that's part of Windows XP, as Lenovo correctly states.
Why don't you use an internal wifi card, such as Intel 2200BG?
Can be mounted under the Keyboard/bezel.