Lenovo ThinkCentre E93z - A Wireless Lan Problem; A Wireless Wan Problem

Theadapterstopsworkingfornoapparentreason
Symptom:Theadapterstopsworkingfornoapparentreason.
Action:Thenetworkdriverfilesmaybecorruptormissing.Updatethedriverbyreferringtothe“Solution”
descriptionfortheproceduretoensurethatthecorrectdevicedriverisinstalled.
TheWakeonLANfeatureisnotworking
Symptom:TheWakeonLAN(WOL)featureisnotworking.
Actions:
•EnsurethatWOLisenabledintheBIOSSetupUtilityprogram.
•Ifitis,checkwithyourLANadministratorforthenecessarysettings.
IfyourcomputerisaGigabitEthernetmodelandyouuseaspeedof1000Mbps,theconnection
failsorerrorsoccur
Symptom:IfyourcomputerisaGigabitEthernetmodelandyouuseaspeedof1000Mbps,theconnection
failsorerrorsoccur.
Actions:
•UseCategory5wiringandensurethatthenetworkcableissecurelyconnected.
•Connecttoa1000BASE-Thub/switch(not1000BASE-X).
IfyourcomputerisaGigabitEthernetmodel,itcannotconnecttothenetworkat1000Mbps.Instead,
itconnectsat100Mbps
Symptom:IfyourcomputerisaGigabitEthernetmodel,itcannotconnecttothenetworkat1000Mbps.
Instead,itconnectsat100Mbps.
Actions:
•Tryanothercable.
•Ensurethatthelinkpartnerissettoauto-negotiate.
•Ensurethattheswitchis802.3ab-compliant(gigabitovercopper).
AwirelessLANproblem
Symptom:Youcannotconnectusingthebuilt-inwirelessnetworkingcard.
Actions:
•EnsurethatyourwirelessLANdriveristhelatestversion.ChecktheWebsiteandverifythedriverversion
supportedbyAccessConnectionsisthelatestdocumentedinthereadmefile.
•Ensurethatyourcomputeriswithinrangeofawirelessaccesspoint.
•Ensurethatthewirelessradioisenabledbydouble-clickingtheAccessConnectionsiconintheWindows
notificationarea.
•CheckNetworkName(SSID),andyourencryptioninformation.UseAccessConnectionstoverifythis
case-sensitiveinformation.
AwirelessWANproblem
Message:UnauthorizedWANcardispluggedin-PoweroffandremovetheWANcard.
Action:Thewideareanetwork(WAN)cardisnotsupportedonthiscomputer.Removeit.
80ThinkCentreE93zUserGuide