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    Help !! Thinkpad T400 wifi driver Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by tkienbk, Sep 23, 2009.

  1. tkienbk

    tkienbk Newbie

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    Im using Thinkpad T400 with wondows 7 RTM but my wifi card doesn't work. When Fn+F5 it show this message. How can i install it???
    Someone help me, expecialy using windows 7


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    tkienbk, Sep 23, 2009
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  2. jaredy

    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    What wifi card do you have? My windows 7 install had wifi working out of the box. But just go download drivers and put them on a flash drive?

    Intel doesn't have 7 drivers up yet though so you can just try vista's.
     
    jaredy, Sep 23, 2009
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  3. Lew

    Lew Notebook Deity

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    Dumb question -- is/was the radio switch on the front of the laptop turned on?

    The Intel 5300 card was automatically recognized and config'd on my T400 both with Win7 RC x86 and Win7 RTM x64
     
    Lew, Sep 23, 2009
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    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    I am wondering if he has the atheros card (or whatever is used instead of the intel ones).
     
    jaredy, Sep 23, 2009
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    pi3guy Notebook Consultant

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    I had a similar problem with my t500. I ended up plugging in an ethernet cable and windows update found the driver. Strangely, I installed win7 a second time, now having the driver, but the driver did not work when I installed it manually. So if you don't have ethernet you may be out of luck.
     
    pi3guy, Sep 25, 2009
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    "Strangely, I installed win7 a second time, now having the driver, but the driver did not work when I installed it manually."

    There's no need to reinstall Windows if all your doing is putting in a new driver.

    Renee
     
    Renee, Sep 25, 2009
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