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8/30/2008

Getting Wireless To Work On A Laptop Running Windows Server 2008 As Its Operating System

Phaz had a great question about enabling wireless with a laptop running Windows Server 2008 as its primary operating system. Knowing that many of you are also running virtual machine images as a part of work I thought I would re-post my answer here as the answer was not easy for me to find when I struggled through it.

Question: “I've been running a similar setup, Server 2008 on an Inspiron 1501. What did you do to get wireless working?”

Answer: “Ahh that one was a pain. Turns out even with the drivers the services is disabled since it is a server by default. In server manager go to Add Features and select Wireless LAN Service. Once I did that it all worked.”

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Posted at 7:28 AM by b800f480d5b6d5108e30bdc2c3d0be19 | Category: Windows | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (5)

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Re: Getting Wireless To Work On A Laptop Running Windows Server 2008 As Its Operating System

check this site about "converting" a 2008 server in a workstation:
http://www.win2008workstation.com/

at 8/30/2008 6:23 PM

Where was this a month ago!

Thanks for this tidbit. I tried to load 2008 as my laptop's main OS - running a Dell M65, I figured I had the horse power - but couldn't make it work.

To flesh out the symptoms - you have the driver's loaded, your system recognizes and displays the wireless card - but when you try to enable the card, it flips back to disabled.

I ended up rolling back to XP - but now realize that this was my issue. Thanks for posting

at 9/2/2008 3:27 PM

Re: Where was this a month ago!

I have heard this from a few folks ;-)
It really is a buried feature. Well if you retry now you'll know.
Michael

b800f480d5b6d5108e30bdc2c3d0be19 at 9/2/2008 8:19 PM

Dude!!!

So I installed Windows Server 2008 on my T61 and was rather bummed that I couldn't get wireless working even though everything else was flying. Now I know what I'm doing tomorrow :)

at 9/4/2008 2:10 AM

Re: Dude!!!

:-)
Have fun with the rebuild!
Michael

b800f480d5b6d5108e30bdc2c3d0be19 at 9/4/2008 12:57 PM

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