If that doesn't work the magic, check the home router to make sure it isn't set to allow only certain MAC addresses.
Been a while since being in my wireless routers since going with a cellular solution, but seems I recall there's an area (of the Linksys interface anyway) where the user can specify ONLY those MAC addresses he/she wishes to have access. -Dave -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of STeve Andre' Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:17 PM To: Thinkpad Users Group Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Now this is special... 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' > _______________________________________________ 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
