OK, this is solved. I'd not done this in a while, and was going down
too far in the list of things. Once I selected "win32" Windows found
the right INF file and I was on the net, and was able to get updates
and ThinkVantage took care of the rest.
...Except for the wireless card. Both ThinkVantage and Windows
say a network controller is there without a driver, but Windows
says it can't find a suitable driver, and ThinkVantage says that
the install failed.
OpenBSD saw the wireless card, but there is no firmware for it
(you have to get it from Intel) so I didn't test it. Given that Windows
isn't having much luck, I'm wondering how the mini pci card is.
Guess I need to put the OpenBSD disk back in and see if it can
talk with the wireless card. Unless anyone has a specific idea
on this one.
Thanks for the replies, STeve Andre'
On 03/15/11 19:54, STeve Andre' wrote:
I have never encountered this before: I can't seem to get the right
device driver for a T42 I just got.
Going to the Lenovo site, it seems they've changed things; all I
had to do was say T42 and I got a list of drivers for it, and going down
the list I found the only ethernet driver, 7ira09ww.exe.
But when I put that on the T42 and then tried to use it, by browsing
to it, Windows doesn't see what it wants in terms of an INF file, so
I'm stuck browsing, since I don't have he right driver.
In all the time I've been using Thinkpads, this is the first time I've
not been able to find a driver. This is a T42, model 2373-8k4. OpenBSD
saw this Intel ethernet chip as an 'em' device and I used it to install
test software so I know the hardware is OK.
But I'm stumped. Any ideas? Does anyone have a driver that I could
FTP? I got this unit from Ebay for $149. The hardware is in great
shape.
Thanks, STeve Andre'
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