RE: [Thinkpad] t23 wireless mini pci card not seen as wireless?

You are running Windows XP. What version of Windows is your friend running?
Only XP has the built-in wireless support.

For previous versions of Windows, you can download IBM Access Connections
from their website.

-Mike

p.s. Could you set your email client to send plain text instead of HTML?
That rust-colored text is a bit hard to read. Thanks!

> From: James Haddock
>
> A friend was bugging me about how hard a time he had using his t23
> on multiple wireless networks since he has to change the configuration
> for each one (wep keys and such) each time he changes networks using
> some utility (I don't recall exactly which one)...
>
> This confused me since on my x24 I just have both my home and work
> networks listed in my "preferred networks" list on the 'wireless networks"
> tab of the wireless network connection properties pop-up, and for each I
> have separate wep key properties...
>
> I asked my friend why he didn't do the same thing and he replied by asking
> me to show him how...
>
> That's where I got really confused... his t23 also has the
> builtin wireless
> minipci combo card... but the network connection attached to the card is
> not a wireless connection but instead a regular "local area connection"
> (as tho it thinks its a wired connection)...
>
> So the card works, but since the system doesn't think its a wireless
> connection, there is no "wireless networks" tab on the connection props.
>
> We tried removing and reinstalling the device but get the same thing.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? This isn't I suppose super critical to
> fix, but is at the very least quite a nuisance...

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Received on Wed Aug 6 12:54:18 2003