Really? Wild! I'll have to try that. In all the time I've used XP I
have never
seen that. Wow.
Thanks for that!
--STeve Andre'
On 03/23/12 14:01, Michael Geary wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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all the thinkpad specific stuff, but may also a newer version of
the wireless driver, which is the source of the problem, I'll bet.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'
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