Configuring wireless in Win 2k

AJUK

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AJUK

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I have inherited a rubbish IBM laptop (Thinkpad r50e) but to its credit has a Celeron M chipset with inbuilt wireless. Now, not wanting to splash out on Win XP (which it has trouble running) I have a 2K OS disk which is going spare. The problem I have is although the wireless is clearly working (drivers installed and little light is on) I cannot for the life of me connect to my wireless router.

Using Win XP it just detects it and I can connect easily. I am fairly clueless about this sort of thing so how do I go about setting up wireless in Win 2K?

BTW, I put Ubuntu linux on it and it found the connection straight away, so much for Windows being easier. ;)
 
Probably in need of some service pack or other to enable wireless networking. If you have software for connection management that came with the adapter then that "might" work but i'd get yourself up to date on service packs first.
 
I installed SP4 and then updated Windows 2K using the ethernet card. It comes with Intel Pro Wireless 2200 driver/software which has a little utility but when I open it up there doesn't seem to be a method of connecting.
 
oi, it's not a rubbish laptop! (i have an r50e... but a pentium-m 1.7 one, not a celeron model).

i've not used win2k on it, but have you tried downloading the "Software Installer" from the ibm/lenovo site? That'd be the best bet, but obv assumes you have a wired connection you can use to access the net to download that. am impressed than ubuntu picked up the wireless straight away, don't think it did on mine. was that liveCD for full install?
 
I'm sure yours is great with a Pentium M in it but this one sucks with a Celeron M 1.4. I have just popped in another 256 of ram (512 total now) and tings are a lot better. Apart from that it is actually a very good little lappy.

I have installed the software installer from disk and all the drivers and software are there but it just doesn't want to connect. I am reluctant to splash out on another Win XP license (everything works great under that) because it runs so much better on 2K.

As for Ubuntu I installed the full 5.1 package with Automatix and it worked very well albeit very sluggish. It even found the wireless during the initial install, configured DHCP and all that gubbins straight away, very impressive.

Looks like 2K is not going to be an option then, thanks anyway guys.
 
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am sorry to hear it dude, wish i could have been of some help :s just out of curiosity, does it have a windows licence sticker on the bottom of the lappy. if so, what os is it for (2k or xp) if it's xp you might not need to shell out for another licence?

Rob
 
marc2003, I'll give that application a try.

pinkegobox, It has a Win XP sticker on the bottom but I only have an OEM copy of Windows for my main pc.
 
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