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XWLan updates
Doug Bissett:
I am not sure how it can work, although the W500 might use an older method to turn on the radio. In my case, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad L530, with an Intel Wireless N 2200 device (I think it is very similar to the 5100). I can get the driver to load, with no complaint, and all looks like it should work. However, it works exactly like a wired NIC, with no cable plugged in. The problem appears to be, that I cannot find any way to turn on the radio. With no radio, there is no communication path, and it isn't going to work.
One thing that I have been meaning to do, is put the 2200 into my older Lenovo ThinkPad T510 (which has a realtek wireless device), and see if it will go there, but I suspect that it will have the same problem.
Neil Waldhauer:
When I got the W500, it had an Intel 5300. I took that out, and replaced it with a 5100 that I bought on eBay.
When doing this, there are three antennae on the 5300, but only two on the 5100. I puzzled over that for an hour. Does it matter which lines are attached? I now wish I'd photographed the card after installation.
Alex Taylor:
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on November 13, 2013, 06:01:27 am ---When I got the W500, it had an Intel 5300. I took that out, and replaced it with a 5100 that I bought on eBay.
When doing this, there are three antennae on the 5300, but only two on the 5100. I puzzled over that for an hour. Does it matter which lines are attached? I now wish I'd photographed the card after installation.
--- End quote ---
I really don't know. Mine had a 5100 from the start. I've opened it up and examined the card in the past, and noticed that there are three antenna leads but only two are connected to the card (the third is tucked into the space beside the card with its end protected by some kind of black plastic cover).
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Neil
The good thing about Lenovo is that they put some work on creating the "Hardware Maintenance Manuals", I don't want to talk about the bad things :)
http://www.levnapc.cz/ProductsFiles/thinkpad-t500-manual-en.pdf
Page 84.
But I still don't know what the third cable is for. It is like the third antenna cable.
Regards
Neil Waldhauer:
I took the W500 with new XWLAN software to the public library. The first time, the system would not get WiFi. In fact the system froze. But I rebooted, and it worked fine. I'm attaching a screen capture of "Scan for Hotspots", showing 32 access points in the main reading room.
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