Access connections not displaying in range wireless networks
A couple of weeks ago I had a problem with my X200 (Win 7 64bit) which hung during bootup and had to be recovered by a hard power down. It restarted OK but ever since then Access connections does not show any wireless connections available. It will actually connect by wireless no problem but I now have no choice on what I can connect to. I tried a system restore to a point before the problem started - still the same. I tried the Lenovo phone helpdesk and they suggested re-installing the Wi-fi driver by downloading and installing the most recent update. The machine is fitted with an Intel Wi-fi Link 5100 and I've installed the latest driver 13.02.0000. The installation instructions also indicted that I needed to update the Thinkpad Power Management driver, Thinkvantage Access Connections and Hotkey Features Integration for compatibility with the latest Wifi driver, which I did in reverse order. After all this, the problem still persists. Any ideas on how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.
So, I uninstalled Access Connections and reinstalled via Lenovo Update.
It now works, yet i could only innitially connect via "details" and not graphical... after which the graphical interface now reads the network as being there and connected (it took a while for it to show up)
I will update whether or not this "fix" sticks.
For those of you who are like "Why use Access Connections at all?",--I like the customizable profiles (performance vs power savings, proxy etc)
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