The T42 has a bulit-in wireless network adapter and a LAN network card.
T42s most likely have an Intel wireless card or less likely a Cisco
wireless card.
Your wireless network adapter may have been disabled in the BIOS
and/or
The drivers for the wireless network controller has not been installed.
To
check the network adapter go to the Control Panel, Click on System,
click on Hardware Tab then Device Manager. Then scroll down and click
on Network adapters. If you don't see your network controller or you
see a yellow ? against Other devices for the Network controller. Then
either it has been disabled and/or the driver was not installed.
To
get the driver for the network controller you need to dowload it from
the IBM/Lenovo WEB site their support/download page from a computer
that has Internet access. Make sure you select your laptop model and
the driver for your Windows version.
Install the driver and you
then need to configure the wireless adapter to suit your wireless
router settings before you can access the Internet.
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Manish
F5 is for bluetooth only!!!
switch button STILL not found.
And all previous steps of solution 1 have been checked and are ok.
SO, how to proceed with solving wireless??¿¿¿???
Press the fuction + F5 keys together.
SOURCE: IBM T42 LAPTOP
If there is an icon in the taskbar refereing to your wireless connection, right click it then properties, then connect. You can also get to it through control panel> internet conenctions and then click on your wireless connection and click enable.
SOURCE: Where is the wireless switch located on the IBM
Unlike the newer laptops, the T42 doesn't have it's own wireless switch. So in order to get the wireless working, you need to also make sure that the Power Management driver and the Hotkey driver are installed as well.
Load the drivers in this order:
1) Power Management driver - http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4GXPEG
2) Hotkey driver - http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-68000
3) Wireless Driver - http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70504
After downloading it, you must go into C>Drivers>Win>Wlanint and run the setup file from there.
4) Access Connections (Optional) - http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4ZLNJB
SOURCE: ibm thinkpad t42 switch for wireless network
How do I get my wireless network on in my IBM T 42
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