At a loss with this XP Wireless driver

As I was installing XP Pro and the corresponding drivers on my Lenovo G410 (correct sequence followed and drivers taken from their official site), I noticed that the Wireless adapter still remained as an unknown network controller device.

There were two drivers within the website ( http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-68891):
One was Gemtek (containing the Broadcom driver) and another was the Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG Adapter. Both of them failed to recognize the device. Anyway, I reformatted a third time and tried the Vista Gemtek driver and for some reason it worked. The only problem was that it was perenially on "limited or no connectivity" even though it could detect my network and could connect. I tried a reformatting (fresh) a fourth time to keep the installation as clean as possible. For some reason, the Vista driver thing was a fluke because the wireless icon never popped again.

I am now stumped with this problem as I tried downloading the driver (based on the product and device ids (14e4&4315) on other brand websites (Dell, HP, Acer) and was met with dead-ends. I am thinking that it may have something to do with two things:
- Should I install both the gemtek and intel pro/wireless 3945? If so, what is the rationale behind it?

- Could SP3 have been contributory to the problem/solution? That fluke happened during the time when I installed SP3 immediately after installing the chipset drivers.




I hope someone could help me out.

Everything else works, except for that.

 

Ok, I finally was able to solve it. I just extracted all the files of that Dell driver installer and updated the driver via device manager. Now it works as it should.

 

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same problem with you on my Lenovo G410. Where can I get this Dell driver installer? Do you need additional program to extract it or can I just simply run the installer? Drivers provided on Lenovo website (all 3 of them, Gemtek, 3945ABG, and 4xxxABG, don't work).

Thanks,
fitro

 

On their website. I'll point you in the right direction:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...NS_PNT_PM_1525&hidos=WLH&hidlang=en&TabIndex=

It's the first download under the network tab. Look for this filename
(Dell_multi-device_A17_R174291) then extract it with winrar to manually install the device (update via device manager).

 

Hi,

Thanks for the url, have tried to click on the link, however couldn't find the file name mentioned (Dell_multi-device_A17_R174291), the available files under the network tab are:

O/S: XP

Dell Driver:
*Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard
*Wireless 1490 Dual-Band WLAN MiniCard
*Wireless 1505 Draft 802.11 n WLAN MinICard
*Wireless 1395 WLAN MiniCard

Intel Driver:
*Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
*(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

Which file should I download?

Btw, when browsing through the spec of my g410, it says something like "Wireless Network Type: InviLink 802.11BG".

fitro

 

The first bracket. Click the download link and you should be given the same filename I posted.

 

dude,

just use vista Gemtek, ang it will be detected as Broadcom 802.1 g

btw, i tried yours to and it does work
thx dude