Wifi card 2200BG will not activate on X40

[eli80]

Hello,

I have bough a new wifi card for my X40 XP pro SP3, and it will not work. It does not show up in Device manager. Usually unrecognized hardware will show up with a question mark, but my wifi card is completely invisible to the system. I have tried all drivers I can think of from lenovo and also directly from intel. I also tried intels automatic drivers utility but the card was not recognized. I updated the chipset drivers from intel, but this did not have any effect. My bluetooth is working fine and can be activated/deactivated with Fn+F5.

The card is a WM3B2200BG which I bought second hand.

My X40 is a 2371-79G

Wifi is activated in bios.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Regards

eli80

[topmahof Community Moderator · Accepted solution]

Hi ele80 and welcome to the community,

Are you getting any kind of error at startup? 1802?  Do you know if the card came out of a Lenovo?

Make sure the contacts are clean. Use a pencil eraser to clean them with if they are at all questionable.

Other than that, it sounds like you might have gotten a bad card.  How about your old card?  Does it still work?

Dave

[eli80]

Wow, that did actually work! Amazing. I guess the pins got oxidized from not being used for a long time. Thank you so much for your help!

Regards

eli80

[topmahof Community Moderator]

You're welcome, always try the simple stuff first, right?

Dave