What was the 7-character model number on the bottom, 237?-??? Cheers,
George -----Original Message----- From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 4:28 am Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Getting the ethernet driver for a T42 -- mostly solved 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' > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
