Windows 10: Disabled wifi qualcomm atheros

I haven't tried that. But was thinking to do so. I'll let you know what happens.

 

You could try reverting to the driver that worked formerly, assuming there's no other settings or configuration issue, and then protect it from being updated if it works.

 

Wordman no luck bro. Its still the same. Maybe windows 10's not for me.

 

Hi there

This method often works

1) in Settings switch WI-FI OFF
2) in control panel (still works !! --right mouse click on start button -->hardware--devices--network_adapters -- select DISABLE.
3) (Optional step but it's better to do it) - re-boot computer
4) Back to control panel now RE-ENABLE the wifi adapter
5) back to settings - set wifi switch to ON

Now you should see a list of local Wi-Fi networks including yours
6) Connect.

Ensure also you haven't got anything near your laptop which could interfere with Wifi signal such as microwave ovens, TV senders etc etc.


Cheers
jimbo

 

I have used this method to restore my laptop wifi, but this is a workaround, not a fix for an obvious software glitch. THree times in 12 hours since upgrading to Win10...the problem is not the laptop but the OS. 'restart' to restore wifi, that was working fine five minutes ago, is not a solution to an obviously known bug.

I've read the stuff about VPNs, never had anything like it installed on my laptop. Seems like a lot of hot air and not a lot of fixes to a known and well reported problem.

 

When the Wifi goes off, have you checked the two relevant settings in the action centre? Just curious, as obviously that's a new feature in Win 10.

 

Exactly. No matter what we do the problem remains. *Sad nd disabling an reenabling doesn't help. Its a major bug. Specially happening with the atheros 9000 series cards.

Reverted back to windows 8.1 & wifi works really good.

 

Has the problem been solved bro?

 

Resetting the BIOS by removing the RTC battery from the motherboard did the trick! *Biggrin

 

That's really strange although I'm glad it worked out for you. Do you think it was because you had tweaked BIOS settings in some obscure way and setting back to on-chip defaults resolved it? Hope this is a lasting solution.

 

I have nearly the same environment (Win 7 WiFi working, then Win 10 Upgrade) and exactly the same problem as mentioned in post #10 (my Atheros WiFi couldn't get switched on even after I had followed all proposed procedures).
Inspired by post #22, I loaded the BIOS Setup Defaults (via BIOS menu), restarted the laptop, and the Atheros WiFi switched itself on and even reconnected to its prior (my Win 7 configured) WLAN router - all by itself!
Big thanks for your work!!

 

Clean install of Windows 10 Home and the OS could not turn on the AR9285. Resetting the bios to default settings cured this.

 

Exactly the same issue here, however I'm running a Broadcom 440x ethernet adapter. Any ideas as to which BIOS setting is changed that resolves the issue?

Many thanks

 

Apparently there is no properly working Windows 10 driver for the Atheros AR9285. I put one in my Dell Latitude E6530 and it worked fine. Then came the Creators Update and it still worked fine.

But some update since has *broken it* to where most of the time it cannot see any WiFi connections available. Running the troubleshooter will "fix" it and it can connect, but only for about 30 seconds. Then it goes back to ignoring all WiFi connections.

NONE of the fixes have done a thing to make it work. MICROSOFT has yet again done something which has caused problems with many WiFi and Ethernet adaptors with Windows 10.

Why do they keep doing this!?