{"id":797,"date":"2009-01-14T02:04:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T07:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:48:02","slug":"problem-in-finding-wireless-networks-on-lenovo-t61p-and-window-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2009\/01\/14\/problem-in-finding-wireless-networks-on-lenovo-t61p-and-window-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem in Finding Wireless Networks on Lenovo T61p and Window 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally gotten off my derriere and put together a tripled-boot system featuring Windows Vista (x64), Linux Fedora (i686) and Windows 2008 with Hyper-V on my Lenovo T61p laptop (I chose i686 CPU architecture for my Linux OS because 32 bit and 64 bit story is a little bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxforums.org\/forum\/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material\/69585-should-you-choose-32-bit-64-bit-linux.html\">different<\/a> in Linux\u00a0 than Windows!).<\/p>\n<p>The fact that how much I am loving my Linux AdventureWorks (meaning my adventures in Linux land) and how great this OS is , remains to be discussed in another post (oh , Yeah! \ud83d\ude09 ),\u00a0 but believe or not, the hardest part of the whole triple boot story was to set up the wireless adapter in Windows 2008!<\/p>\n<p>The same driver (<strong>Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN<\/strong>) which was working rock solid in vista was giving me hard time in Windows 2008!\u00a0 Actually , in the device manager everything looked like just fine (this device is working properly message) , but I was not able to find any wireless network to connect to! Feeling isolated&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I was getting &#8220;Your wireless adaptor is experiencing driver issue&#8221; when I ran Windows native diagnosis tool and Intel manual Diagnosis software was yelling that the &#8220;wireless adapter is disabled or uninstalled&#8221; or the installed version of the driver is not supported by my Wireless chipset or something like that! I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www-307.ibm.com\/pc\/support\/site.wss\/MIGR-67853.html#wireless\">all three drivers<\/a> in the lenovo support Web site, but nothing changed and the problem still as it was!<\/p>\n<p>Reset the WINSOCK entries, IPv4 and IPV6 TCP\/IP stack to installation defaults and rebooted the computer , no dice!<\/p>\n<p>It finally turned out that \u00a0there is this Feature in Windows 2008 called &#8220;<strong>Wireless LAN Service<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 that needs to be installed, otherwise wireless networks won&#8217;t be discovered! Easy , but kept me scratching my head for a while 8)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wirelesslan-service.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wirelesslan-service.png\" alt=\"wirelesslan-service.png\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally gotten off my derriere and put together a tripled-boot system featuring Windows Vista (x64), Linux Fedora (i686) and Windows 2008 with Hyper-V on my Lenovo T61p laptop (I chose i686 CPU architecture for my Linux OS because 32 bit and 64 bit story is a little bit different in Linux\u00a0 than Windows!). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[27,26],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-linux","tag-windows-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}