Four? Well, one of these has to be for my Broadcom, right? Wrong again! Open up the "Wireless LAN" section and there are 4 results. I punch in the model name, "20157", and I get the driver categories. Great! I'll just go to Lenovo's driver downloads and download the Windows 7 Broadcom WLAN driver, right? Wrong. #2 on the list is to use a pre-Windows 8 driver. I don't control the access points so updating the firmware is out. Turns out to be some awkward bug Windows 8 has with Cisco APs Find a Microsoft KB article acknowledging the issue here. Set it up, cleaned out all the Lenovo crapware (seriously, it's 2013, just install Windows and walk away.), take it to work and Windows cannot connect to the Wi-Fi network. Considering how much praise I heard about Lenovo, I went out and picked up a cheap G580. I needed a Windows laptop and wasn't really interested in using my personal MacBook for the job. Normally I'm an Apple (personal laptop, no drivers) and Dell (servers, drivers customized by service tag) guy.
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