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Wireless - can't get it to work after reinstall

Postby rimam » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:20 am

I have a Lenovo S10e that needed a complete reinstall of Windows. It no longer has the preload, just xp, service pack 3, from disks I own. Everything has reinstalled fine after using drivers from Lenovo website except wireless – appears in device manager as Network Controller (with yellow exclamation mark).
I think this machine has a Broadcom 4310 wireless pci card and so installed driver 54wg04ww from Lenovo site but the Network controller properties says
The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.

Using the wizard and choosing to manually install from the driver folder gives an error that it cannot find the required software, although if I try to install again it gives me the option to remove it. So it's not like it's not on the machine – somewhere! Just doesn't seem to be connecting to what it needs to to bring up the wireless.
And another thing confusing me: in the details tab, Device instance id, it shows PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4237&SUBSYS_12118086&REV_00\4&2803E7C1&0&00E2
which a search on the net suggests is Intel PRO Wireless 5100 AGN Shiloh Network Connection. I tried searching Intel's site and can't find anything that seems relevant there, so I don't know what that's all about.
Any clues how to get the wireless up and running?
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Re: Wireless - can't get it to work after reinstall

Postby mister2 » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:19 am

The first thing I'd do is find out exactly which network card is in your S10e. Open the compartment underneath and find out. Then you'll be able to install the proper drivers for it.
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Re: Wireless - can't get it to work after reinstall

Postby rimam » Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:12 pm

Thanks - don't know why I didn't look at it more carefully before when I took it out and put it back in a few days ago, in the hope that Windows would automatically recognise new hardware and try to install it (which it didn't...). I'll see how I go.
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Re: Wireless - can't get it to work after reinstall

Postby rimam » Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:21 am

All fixed. A friend suggested to use the original driver from Intel website rather than latest version. Now, I don't know if it was coincidence but Windows installed 51 updates in between my last post and my attempt to install the abovementioned driver. This install attempt actually ran, installed the software and everything's a go-go. Thanks for all the assistance.
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