Thinkpad P50 WiFi Card upgrade issues
Hello everyone, today I just got an Intel AX210 wifi chip in the mail and installed. I installed the driver version 22.45.1.1 to ensure that the driver does not check with the bios for supporting the 6ghz band. After I installed everything and booted up windows, device manager reports that the driver is installed correctly, and the device reports as ok. No yellow triangle on the device in device manager at all. However, when I try to turn on the wifi in my settings, it never turns on and sees other Networks, it turns itself back off every time I try to turn it on. Upon doing some talking to an ai, I discovered that I can run netsh wlan show interfaces and see some details about the cards state.
It shows Hardware: Off, and Software: Off
However when I try to turn the wifi on, and then run the command again, the software shows as On. However once the wifi is off again, it shows Software Off.
In order to get that far even, I had to install the Lenovo Hotkey Features Integration
My airplane mode is not on.
My ai suggested that I try putting a piece of tape over pin 51 of the card, the W_DISABLE which will prevent the bios from turning the chip off since it does not recognize it.
This did not work. The command I ran in windows above still reports Hardware: Off.
Now it did suggest that I tape over a second pin, pin #2, the W_DISABLE#2 pin. I have not tried this yet but I wanted to post here to see if anyone else has had the same issue I'm having and found a solution. My cmos battery is dead and whenever I take out my battery, it clears the cmos. So I know the device lockout state is getting reset. I also have tried disabling WLAN, Bluetooth, and WWLAN in the bios settings under Security->I/O access, saving and exiting, and then re enabling those settings and still not success.
I would very much love some help on this. I spent almost 30 bucks on this card to get it shipped asap and really don't wanna go through the hassle of sending it back.
Thank you in advance!