I am having lenovo Y410 laptop with netgear 802.11 b/g wireless router.
Winddows XP does not find any nearby WLAN network, where as my vista does have no problem at all. Please help me in getting the XP work with WLAN.
I have installed WLAN drivers from IBM lenovo site but nothing has resolved my problem.
Do you have two laptops, one with Vista and one with XP?
Can the XP laptop detect the wireless router?
If so check the wireless card settings on the Vista laptop (ie the SSID and the encryption setting) and configure the same settings on the wireless card on the XP laptop.
Now that you have given me more details , I will try to help you.
There can be two reasons why XP cannot see the router.
1. The XP wireless driver is not installed or it is not working. Go to Device Manager the see if the wireless card is enabled and working. If not download and install the wireless card driver for your model laptop.
2. The wireless card under XP has not been configured with the wireless router's settings. Check the the wireless router's SSID and encryption settings etc. and configure the wireless card with these settings. OR look at these settings of the wireless card under Vista and configure the wireless card under XP.
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My laptop is dual boot with vista and xp. When booted with vista it works fine, where as when booted with XP it does not detect the wireless router at all.
N.B. When I used a wireless dongle (borrowed from my friend) to connect the router from XP it works fine. But the default wireless in the laptop is not detecting the router.
I have installed the driver Intel 3945ABG wireless network driver (supported for lenovo 3000 Y410 - my model) from the lenovo download site.
When I checked the driver properties at xp device management under "Advanced" tab I could not locate the settings for "SSID" whereas for my WG111v3 USB wireless adapter these settings are there.
I have installed the driver Intel 3945ABG wireless network driver (supported for lenovo 3000 Y410 - my model) from the lenovo download site.
When I checked the driver properties at xp device management under "Advanced" tab I could not locate the settings for "SSID" whereas for my WG111v3 USB wireless adapter these settings are there.
I have installed the driver Intel 3945ABG wireless network driver (supported for lenovo 3000 Y410 - my model) from the lenovo download site.
When I checked the driver properties at xp device management under "Advanced" tab I could not locate the settings for "SSID" whereas for my WG111v3 USB wireless adapter these settings are there.
Pardon me for the multiple posts of the same text content. This happened due to some network problem the request got submitted when I pressed "Post Comment" many times as fixya site did not respond in time.
I got a connection utility from intel site which was able to configure the wireless network connections. So my problem is resolved by using this tool. Thanks for your help.
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