Lenovo (IBM) Thinkpad T41 Wlan problem

[kkbigal]

This might be a bit of a long-shot but maybe the good people of the OcUK forums might have some ideas with a problem I've encountered

A work colleague has a Lenovo Thinkpad T41 and it's had a completely new build of XP with SP 2 installed. However, it flatly refuses to install the wireless lan driver supplied on the Lenovo site.

I even took the laptop apart and identified the wireless card: Intel WM3B2100. This seems to correspond with the drivers I've downloaded, but device manager stubbornly shows a big fat "?" over an unknown network controller.

Does anyone have any ideas why it's being so stubborn?

 

[norm]

The card has probably died. Or the motherboard is playing up (I had a T41 where both the USB ports and audio died on it).

I would recommend upgrading to a newer version because Intel discontinued support for that product a while ago and as such I couldnt get it to work correctly with SP2 (or may have been SP3).