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I am trying to install an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 into my Levovo x301 Thinkpad. I have a half card and have the gray and black wires plugged in. I replaced the BIOS with a version that does not whitelist wireless cards.

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Why won't Windows 8 recognize this card? Am I supposed to use the other wires instead? I replaced my old card because Intel stopped making drivers for it for Windows.

fixer1234
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    Does it show up in Device Manager at all? Event with the wrong/no antenna attached it should still show up in DM. Are you sure it's seated fully/properly? Have you tested the adapter to ensure it works (like by inserting it into another notebook)? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 04 '12 at 19:45
  • Have you confirmed no physical WIFI control switches are toggled off? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 04 '12 at 19:50
  • It does not show up in the device manager. I do not have another notebook to test the card one. Before I redid the bios, I did get the bios error though. Wifi switch is on. – twodayslate Dec 04 '12 at 19:51
  • I swapped wireless cards with my netbook. My netbook recognizes the 6200. The new wireless card (unlabeled) is not detected in my x301. I switched to the white cable on the AUX and the black on the MAIN – twodayslate Dec 06 '12 at 19:40
  • Note: I can see a PCI Serial Port and PCI Simple Communications Controller in my other devices in the device manager. – twodayslate Dec 06 '12 at 19:53
  • I don't like that metal bracket-adapter thing. :) Have you tried dismounting it form that and instead putting the card (without the metal bracket) into the other "9BGHA" socket in the picture? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 06 '12 at 20:01
  • I hate to ask an obvious question, but if you're seeing devices in Device manager under "other", have you tried manually installing the drivers for this card? – Fopedush Dec 06 '12 at 23:10
  • I put the device into the other port. That did not work either. I have been manually installing the driver with `wireless_15.3.50_De64.exe` after I remove PCI Serial Port and PCI Simple Communications controller but the driver just adds them back again? – twodayslate Dec 06 '12 at 23:20
  • I added legacy drivers through device manager and all of the drivers for 6200 say `This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)` – twodayslate Dec 07 '12 at 04:07
  • Maybe you should rollback the bios to the previous version. – harrymc Dec 07 '12 at 08:37
  • How would I do that? The x301 bios whitelists cards unless you mod it. My bios is currently modded. – twodayslate Dec 07 '12 at 17:36
  • It also does not work with a 6300. Would a fresh install of Windows do the trick? – twodayslate Dec 10 '12 at 22:05
  • Fresh installs did not work. Tried to install Ubuntu and that was a no go. – twodayslate Dec 17 '12 at 04:49
  • I ended up getting a usb dongle – twodayslate Dec 25 '12 at 06:32

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