Windows 10: Problem with Wireless Adapter or access point Windows 10 Pro,Version 2004 Dell Inspiron...

Hi Everyone,

My wifi keeps getting disconnected every 30-40 minutes or so. Switching on or off from the hardware switch Fn + Wifi does not even reboot the wifiadapter on laptop. It shows no network to connect, despite having my wifi router working alright with other laptops / mobile phones.


I have to reset wireless network adapter on laptop everytime to connect with any available WIFI network! This is painful, because I am working from home during COVID pandemic and cannot afford frequent disconnection.


I have installed all windows updates, updated the wifi adapter driver to the latest one from Dell's website.This issue started on Windows version 1909 3 days ago and I upgraded to version 2004 day before yesterday, thinking it would solve the problem, but nothing happened!


Windows 10 Pro,Version 2004 19041.450

Pasting here, the diagnostics from Windows Troubleshooter :


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Issues found

Problem with wireless adapter or access point

Problem with wireless adapter or access point Fixed

Reset the wireless adapter Completed

Investigate router or access point issues Not run



Diagnostics Information Network Adapter

Details about network adapter diagnosis:



Network adapter Mayank driver information:



Description . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless 1705 802.11bgn 2.4GHZ

Manufacturer . . . . . . . . . : Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.

Provider . . . . . . . . . . . : Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.

Version . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.321

Inf File Name . . . . . . . . . : C:\WINDOWS\INF\oem7.inf

Inf File Date . . . . . . . . . : Monday, June 29, 2015 7:48:00 PM

Section Name . . . . . . . . . : ATHR_DEV_OS61_956x.ndi

Hardware ID . . . . . . . . . . : pci\ven_168c&dev_0036&subsys_020c1028

Instance Status Flags . . . . . : 0x180200a

Device Manager Status Code . . : 0

IfType . . . . . . . . . . . . : 71

Physical Media Type . . . . . . : 9





InformationalDiagnostics Information Wireless Connectivity

Details about wireless connectivity diagnosis:



Information for connection being diagnosed

Interface GUID: b68dcfc7-722a-4c41-8d77-46ff52e2ebee

Interface name: Dell Wireless 1705 802.11bgn 2.4GHZ

Interface type: Native Wi-Fi



Connection incident diagnosed

Auto Configuration ID: 2





List of visible access points: 0 items total, 0 items displayed



Connection History



Information for Auto Configuration ID 2



List of visible networks: 0 items total, 0 items displayed



List of preferred networks: 3 items

Profile: Anjana

SSID: Anjana

SSID length: 6

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Set by group policy: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No

Connectable: No

Reason: 0x00028002

Profile: Anjana_old

SSID: Anjana_old

SSID length: 10

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Set by group policy: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No

Connectable: No

Reason: 0x00028002

Profile: Mayank

SSID: Mayank

SSID length: 6

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Set by group policy: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No

Connectable: No

Reason: 0x00028002



Information for Auto Configuration ID 1



List of visible networks: 2 items total, 2 items displayed

BSS Type PHY Security SignalRSSI CompatibleSSID

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Infra <unknown> Yes 100 Yes Anjana_old

Infra <unknown> Yes 100 Yes SUSHIL PANDEY.



List of preferred networks: 3 items

Profile: Anjana

SSID: Anjana

SSID length: 6

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Set by group policy: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No

Connectable: No

Reason: 0x00028003

Profile: Anjana_old

SSID: Anjana_old

SSID length: 10

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Set by group policy: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No

Connectable: Yes

Profile: Mayank

SSID: Mayank

SSID length: 6

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Set by group policy: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No

Connectable: No

Reason: 0x00028003



Information for Connection ID 1

Connection started at: 2020-08-19 14:04:32-979

Auto Configuration ID: 1

Profile: Anjana_old

SSID: Anjana_old

SSID length: 10

Connection mode: Infra

Security: Yes

Pre-Association and Association

Connectivity settings provided by hardware manufacturer IHV: No

Security settings provided by hardware manufacturer IHV: No

Profile matches network requirements: Success

Pre-association status: Success

Association status: Success

Last AP: 18-f0-e4-ad-0a-7d

Security and Authentication

Configured security type: WPA2-PSK

Configured encryption type: CCMPAES

802.1X protocol: No

Key exchange initiated: Yes

Unicast key received: Yes

Multicast key received: Yes

Number of security packets received: 0

Number of security packets sent: 0

Security attempt status: Success

Connectivity

Packet statistics

Ndis Rx: 123

Ndis Tx: 189

Unicast decrypt success: 1648

Multicast decrypt success: 0

Unicast decrypt failure: 0

Multicast decrypt failure: 0

Rx success: 1648

Rx failure: 138

Tx success: 3252

Tx failure: 0

Tx retry: 1

Tx multiple retry: 0

Tx max lifetime exceeded: 0

Tx ACK failure: 638

Roaming history: 1 items

Times: 2020-08-19 14:30:18-494

Roamed from BSSID: 18-f0-e4-ad-0a-7d

Reason: 0x00000002

Disconnected from BSSID: 00-00-00-00-00-00 Reason: 0x00000205







InformationalDiagnostics Information Wireless Network Adapter

Details about wireless network adapter diagnosis:



For complete information about this session see the wireless connectivity information event.



Helper Class: Native Wi-Fi MSM

Initialize status: Success



Information for connection being diagnosed

Interface GUID: b68dcfc7-722a-4c41-8d77-46ff52e2ebee

Interface name: Dell Wireless 1705 802.11bgn 2.4GHZ

Interface type: Native Wi-Fi

Profile: Discovery connection

SSID: Unnamed Network

SSID length: 0

Connection mode: <unknown>

Security: No

Connect even if network is not broadcasting: No



Result of diagnosis: No problem found











InformationalNetwork Diagnostics Log

File Name: 8BF9EC54-FD35-47F4-A0EE-62FEFA929842.Diagnose.0.etl


InformationalOther Networking Configuration and Logs

File Name: NetworkConfiguration.cab


Collection information

Computer Name: MAYANKIIT

Windows Version: 10.0

Architecture: x64

Time: Wednesday, 19 August, 2020 14:31:12





Publisher details Expand



Windows Network Diagnostics

Detects problems with network connectivity.

Package Version: 4.0

Publisher: Microsoft Windows

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The "Local Area Connection 2" adapter is not working properly - Detected

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Please tell me how to permanently resolve this issue.

Kindly write your answer as simply and detailed as possible so that I can follow the steps.

Thank you very much.

 

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Dell Inspiron 15 Windows 10 Wireless Drivers

Hi all,

I just came here to post about the Dell Inspiron 15 Wireless driver for Windows 10 for whom who might had problem like me.

After upgrading my Inspiron 15 machine from windows 8.1 to 10, everything were working fine except for my Wireless WIFI which was connecting to my Router with Limited access.

It was really weird as it could connect to other networks correctly and not my router.

I short the story, just foud that the driver is not match with Windows 10 so it's not connecting properly.

I tried several driver but I only could fix it with method bellow and I post it here hope helps others...

I tried to update the driver and Windows couldn't find any.

So, to fix the driver issue which is Dell Wireless 1703, select update driver from list and uncheck the incompatible items to list other incompatible drivers.

The list have an Item named Dell Wireless 1707. Install that and it works.

The driver still shows as 1703 but if you go to driver details you see that the driver in fac is using the 1707 version which works fine.

Hope it helps....

(2015/Aug/10)