Windows 10 Edu - Wireless Driver for Lenovo X121e

[speckytecky]

Today Iv'e been setting up a test Windows Lenovo X121e 64 bit Thinkpad. All seems to have gone well, but unfortunately the Lenovo support tools from their support site don't give me a download option for a wireless driver.

[Norphy]

Do you have one still running its pre-installed OS? Is it W8 or above?

 

If so, you can use the Export-WindowsDriver PowerShell cmdlet to do a dump of all installed drivers on the laptop.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn614084.aspx

[speckytecky]

Thanks @Norphy the preinstalled OS was W7.

[caffrey]

Not sure if it's any help but I have a similar laptop - I just installed a bios that allows any wifi card to be installed - I've used a intel AC7260 and it was no bother in windows 10.

[speckytecky]

Thanks @caffrey having experienced major issues with Lenovos in the past even just on trying to flash the BIOS I tend to steer well clear of anything to do with that nowadays.

 

It just annoys me massively that it seems Lenovo fail to provide a complete update option for the OS. On the other hand I upgraded an Acer laptop today and that went from 7 to 10 seamlessly.

Edited January 10, 2017 by speckytecky

[caffrey]

I didn't experience any issues with BIOS, but like you said once bitten - I just searched for bios with whitelist removed. There are other cards listed that are in the whitelist , may be worth investigating ?

[speckytecky]

I've found a driver on the Lenovo site that seems to work perfectly it's hswn03ww.exe It was listed for a newer Thinkpad.