Missing Driver

[Dirkpitt289]

I have an IBM Think Pad R51 1836 and its missing the wireless drivers. I found the site Lenovo which has about 4 different drivers but none of them work. Any other suggestions where I can locate the drivers? I've been looking for 2 weeks now.

 

[johnb35]

Give me the vendor and device id of the item that needs a driver. Do this by going into device manager and right clicking on said device and click on properites, click on details tab and tell me what the id numbers are. Here is a sample of what you will see, i need a 4 digit number/letter combination for each.

 

[Dirkpitt289]

John

Here is the info you asked for

Network Controller:

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_27118086&REV_05\4&39A85202&0&10F0

PCI Modem:

PCV\VEN_8086&DEV_24C6&SUBSYS_0559101&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&FE

I hope this helps

 

[johnb35]

This is your wireless driver for XP( I assume thats the operating system you are running)

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18404&lang=eng

or this one.

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/6hwc05ww.zip Which is a direct download link so download box will open once you click on this link.

This is for your dial up modem.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-66894

 

[Dirkpitt289]

John

The one for the wieless worked like a charm. Can I ask how you found it?

Thank you so much

Dirk

 

[johnb35]

By using this site.

http://www.pcidatabase.com/

All you do is enter the device id and then match of the existing entries to the vendor id and that tells you exactly what the device is.