Upgrading T41p to Vista - Wireless driver question

I'm contemplating upgrading a T41p 2373GEU with 802.11abg MPCI wireless to Vista. A specific Vista driver for this wireless adapter doesn't seem to be available on the Lenovo site. Has anyone done this upgrade? Will Vista find a generic driver that will work, or am I out of luck?
Thanks,
---John

Unfortunately you have posted an incorrect Type and Model number in your first post, one digit too many
After a little "process of elimination", which is by no means 100% accurate, I'd try this driver.
Here's hoping I'm right
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I had a HD failure, reinstalled Vista Business and Lenovo drivers. I can not get the system to recognize wireless. The switch is on but I do not know the exact type of internal wireless card. I can use an external without problem. I have downloaded all drivers ican find but none seem to see the card in the system. It is not listed in device manager. Any help appreciated.
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Unfortunately you have posted an incorrect Type and Model number in your first post, one digit too many
After a little "process of elimination", which is by no means 100% accurate, I'd try this driver.
Here's hoping I'm right
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Quick wireless driver question

Hi, I have a T500 and have been having issues with WIFI and just wanted to make sure i have the right drivers installed.
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David,
Hope you got an answer... I'm on a new T-500 and having problems with the latest drivers and Cisco VPN Client. As near as I can tell 7vwv23ww.exe was the last version that actually worked with Cisco VPN Client. But I can't find it anywhere and lenovo claims they can't give it to me. Would you still have a copy of that executable?
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Farbod,
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Hi all,
Not sure if this is the right place for the post, if not I apologies in advance.
I have a Compaq Presario C700 (C730EM) on which the hard drive died on me, I brought a new one and installed Windows vista premium from disk (not a backup / recovery disk).
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WRT54G wireless not working after upgrading to windows vista, please help

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I am a new Windows Vista Ultimate OS owner, and thus far, I'm absolutely thrilled with the advances in video render and compression speeds. However, one of the auto-update features tried to update my Extigy driver, the one that apparently loaded with the original install of Windows Vista, and the update didn't work...go figure. So, now there is no way to use the system restore as it doesn't recognize that there was a change, and I can't get the Extigy to make a peep.
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Dear customer service,
I am a customer of Adobe as I bought two years ago the Adobe Creative Suite 5.
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Thinkpad T500 Wireless Driver Issue in Windows 7

The subject pretty much says it all.
I've installed Windows 7 (x64) and everything is working fine with the exception of my internal wireless adapter. I've tried all the Windows 7 drivers provided and also tried the Vista drivers (x64 when applicable). Still nothing. It's (as far as I know) the Thinkpad internal wireless as opposed to any of the Intel ones.
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Should it help, my exact model number is: (T500) 2242-CT0

Hi and welcome to the forum!
Try this, install the Hotkey Features, do a mandatory reboot, thereafter press Fn-F5 to radio on the wireless device, once that's done install the wireless driver.
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VIsta Wireless Problems with New FIOS Install July 2009

I recently had FIOS telephone, INternet andTV intstalled. All was well except on my Vitsa laptop I cannot maintain a steady wireless conneciton with the Actiontec MI424WR router. I hit the Web and found out that many have had this complaint and that there is an ongoing conversation about whose fault the problem is. I had flawless service under TIme- Warner with my Vista Wireless so I did not intially assign blame to Vista or my laptop. I do recall the Verizon installer mentinoed "problems with Vista" but he did not elaborate. I spent all day yesterday researching and attempting every fix suggested on numerous web sites. All failed except one.
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okay so what would a cheap hard drive from PC World be like - like this Western Digital Elements Desktop 500GB 3.5" - although i imagine that link will probably time out.
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I think i want to stick with Time Machine just because it looks so flash and easy to use really, plus i would have to pay for Super Duper
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Would it be okay to have time machine running at the same time as also having separate media on the same hard drive? How much space would time machine take up?
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