Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Lenovo X220T Tablet win8 wifi driver issue

Lenovo X220T table runs Windows 8 just fine.  However, there appears to be a issue with the factory 1x1 wifi driver.

The issue manifest as lost of network connection, unable to connect, or "limited connection" upon resume from sleep.  Work around includes resetting NIC through NetSh, turning off and on wifi NIC, or going into and out of airplane mode.

After some digging, it appears that the Realtek driver fixes this issue.  The 1x1 NIC in the X220T uses Realtek RTL8188CE chipset.  The driver was last found on Dec 23, 2012 at:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true



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