Windows 10: I have an aspire E1-572 laptop with Qualcomm Atheros AR956x wireless network adapter with...

Hi,

I have recently tried to install a 1200M dual band USB WiFi adapter to increase my fibre bandwidth from 2.4Ghz to 5Ghz.

However, this was a little more complicated than expected and caused errors and so backed out of it uninstalled the driver and program, then reinstalled the Qualcomm software and drivers. Now the laptop will not connect to the router wirelessly despite having reinstalled software. The resulting details from the Windows 10 trouble shooter is that it cannot fix the problem as it cannot connect to the internet. Do you have any advice on this issue?

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Faulty Wireless Card?

Try 10.0.0.251 jsfitz54 listed. It's supported.

 

Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network adapter and Windows 10

Are you coming to the conclusion that your wifi network adapter (specifically the Qualcomm Atheros AR956x) is faulty because Windows trouble shooter cannot resolve your wifi connectivity issues? I was. I finally found a driver that seems to have solved the
problem. See link below.

My Windows 10 laptop (an Acer Aspire) repeatedly lost its ability to connect to my Wifi network. If I restarted my router it would work until the next time the laptop slept, hibernated or shut down. The trouble shooter could never resolve the issue and the
so-called search for updated drivers always told me I had the latest one. I spent hours trying every so-called solution posted on this and other forums to resolve this issue with no success. After trying various search parameters for drivers I finally found
a link to the driver that solved my problem. (Atheros was the key, not Qualcomm.)

https://www.atherosddrivers.

(It seems that the forum truncates the appearance of links, so here is the link in text form:

https://www.atherosddrivers.com/2017/09/atheros-ar956x-wireless-network-adapter.html )

I do not know why Windows does not find this driver when searching for updated drivers for the AR956x.

I installed it yesterday so it's still early days but so my laptop has seamlessly resumed it's wifi connection after shut-down, sleep and hibernation. It was so great this morning to discover I did not have to restart the router to get the laptop back online!
Hope this helps a bunch of you folks out!

 

Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network Adapter works on windows 10 but Goes to the last point of connection

Hi Mouhibben,

Thank you for responding.

As the above troubleshooting steps couldn't resolve the issue, do not worry.

Let us proceed further with different troubleshooting steps to uninstall and re-install the network drivers and check if it helps.

I suggest you to download the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website, uninstall the existing drivers, install them and check if it helps.

Step 1: To uninstall drivers, follow these steps:

• Press Windows key + x key on your keyboard.
• Select Device manager.
• Expand Network adapters. Right-click on the device and click
  Uninstall.
• Restart the computer and check if the issue persists.

Step 2: Download the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website and try to install.

Refer: Download Qualcomm Atheros wireless driver

Search for: AR956x and download for your system architecture 32-bit/ 62-bit

Refer to the article by Andre Da Costa to install the drivers:
How to: Install and Update drivers in Windows 10

Hope it helps. Update us the status of this issue for further assistance.

Thank you.