I just installed Win 7 Home Premium on a ThinkPad E420, and the wifi isn't working. I've done all the Windows Updates, and I have a wired connection, but I am totally stumped here-I'm definitely not a Windows person, so I am sorta clueless. Can someone help walk me through this? In the device manager, it says I have no network controller or base system device. I've installed some wireless drivers from the support.lenovo.com site, but that has done nothing. Help!
netsh interface ip show interfaces results:
Idx Met MTU State Name
--- ---------- ---------- ------------ ---------------------------
1 50 4294967295 connected Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1
11 10 1500 connected Local Area Connection
Ipconfig results:
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::da0:e4f6:7801:2ea6%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.10.19
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.10.1
Tunnel adapter isatap.{1A0CC728-21C5-4A94-8A6B-7E888650D995}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:9d38:6abd:14d6:2ddb:f5fe:f5ec
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::14d6:2ddb:f5fe:f5ec%13
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
cmd
. In the newly opened shell enteripconfig
; what does it say?rfkill list
and look for a "Wireless Lan" device it has to be neither 'Soft blocked' nor 'Hard blocked'.ifconfig -a
is a way too, to identify the installed devices. If there is no Wireless device listed on Linux, it could be defect. If you don't have the time to or it is broken, better contact the Lenovo support.