Windows 10: W10 Reinstalls a WiFi Adapter that I uninstalled in Device Properties

I use Windows 10 on my Dell Inspiron One 2330. I have installed an external Netgear 802.11ac Adapter. There is some conflict between the Dell adapter and the new adapter. I can go into device properties and uninstall the Dell Adapter from the system. It then no longer shows in adapter settings or available networks. WiFi works OK. However, when I restart my PC the Dell adapter returns.

How can I prevent this from happening? Thanks

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Latest w10 update uninstalls wifi adapter drivers

Due to my current setup it is not possible to plug in an ethernet cable and auto update the drivers through Device Properties, and without the drivers after I update w10 my wifi adapter is disabled and I lose access to the internet. If someone can share
the download link for the latest wifi card driver for w10, I can simply download the drivers manually and install them after the update.

The adapter I have is an ASUS PCE-AC56 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1300 PCI-E Adapter

 

Broadcom NetlinkTM Gigabit Ethernet adapter loses all connectivity

Hi, here is some place to start...first of all go to your "Control Panel" and click on "System and Security" the click on to "System" then on to "Device Manager" on the left of your screen, then go down thru the list to "Network Adapters" click the arrow
and see if your "Ethernet Adapter" is installed. If it is not there...then click on "View" at the top of the device manager page and go down to show "Hidden Devices" sometimes it'll show there and not in the main menu for the network adapters. If it is there....
highlight the device, right click and go to "update driver software" it might say that it is using the most current driver... if it is and still not working "uninstall" and re boot your computer.

I had to uninstall and physically remove my WIFI adapter, reboot and reinstall physically the adapter and then reboot again, W10 found it and installed.

But I think your Ethernet adapter is probably not easy to get to... if it is...try uninstalling if you're confident doing do so and following what I said in the last part.

Good Luck...it worked for me and still is.

 

If the Dell adapter came with the computer you should be able to disable it in the BIOS. Windows enumerates the hardware available from the BIOS entries which usually is why it keeps showing up. You might get by simply by Disabling it in Device Manager to keep Windows from using it rather than uninstalling it there.

 

Thanks Berton. I'll delete it from Bios. My new adapter is ac capable while the Dell supports only b and g. Sometimes I connect at 868 Mbps and sometimes 130 Mbps. I'm want to connect at the high speed all of the time.

 

I have an external USB Netgear A6210 ac adapter.
All I have to do is disable the Internal Card either from the Network Connections, or in the Device Manager, or the notification box by clicking on the Network Icon.

Both drivers are always installed.

There is no BIOS/UEFI switch on mine.

 

Those speeds are probably in Kbps, fastest I've ever seen in my area on Cable/Broadband is 60Mbps. Most computers with onboard Wireless are 802.11b/g/n with 802.11ac being the newest of the last few years.

 

You need to go into the bios and disable the onboard wifi mini-PCIe card or just disable it from the network properties.

 

On my computers with dual network adapters I have found it easier to leave both of them installed and enabled. Under the Windows 10 network settings, I just don't give the old adapter the password to the WiFi so it doesn't connect. I set the new adapter to automatically connect and it does instead and I always get the faster speed of the new WiFi adapter (which is USB). WiFi is my old, internal network adapter, WiFi 2 is my new dual band USB adapter: