If you go to the wireless device properties in Device Manager, there is a Roll Back Driver option. You could try that to revert to the standard XP driver. No promises that will solve the problem though!
-Mike On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:56 AM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Thinkpad that I had to rebuild, without the original CDs. > Fine--I built it with my own XP CD and got everything working. > This is an X100e, the small, cheap, but actually pretty good notebook. > > Except wireless, sort of. > > The user can do wireless at a coffee shop, or at work, just fine. > He can't connect to his wireless router at home. Someone else > in his family can talk to the router without problem. Thus we > know that the thinkpad in question works, and the wireless > router works--just not this notebook and home routeer. > > Having him do ipconfig commands, he gets a 169.x.x.x address > which is the failure to complete a DHCP handshake. > > I used the thinkvantage system which was great, in that I got > all the thinkpad specific stuff, but may also a newer version of > the wireless driver, which is the source of the problem, I'll bet. > The original factory install of XP worked just fine. > > So then, my question is how do I find previous versions of > drivers? I've looked and perhaps I'm blind but I haven't found > them. The user is connected via ethernet at the moment, but I > have lots of users who see the net as wireless only. > > Ideas? I've never had to roust backwards in versions of wireless > before. Of course, if someone has seen this and has a fix I'd love > to hear it. > > Thanks...... > > --STeve Andre' > > ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
