Yesterdays Windows 10 Update disabling WiFi?

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June 14, 2019 at 4:31 pm #34140
Dave Rice
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2 calls today, W10 laptop and PC with a USB adaptor, WiFi has disappeared! System tray only showing an Ethernet connection available.

In both cases the hardware was still in Device Manager but disabled. Right click, enable and all was well.

Both had Windows updates yesterday, seems too much of a coincidence.
June 21, 2019 at 1:27 pm #34287
Dave Rice
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Just had another one. External TPL USB device (so different hardware again), not disabled but unable to connect to any networks.

Had to disable then re-enable it in Device Manager. No sign of Windows asking for a reboot which had been ignored or similar.
June 21, 2019 at 2:51 pm #34297
Ed P
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re reboot – true, but the ,Net update forces one.
June 22, 2019 at 8:16 am #34322
Richard
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Neither of my machines that have so far been checked show any problem, one used a 15 year old Netgear part that is supposedly not supported under Windows 10, but which worked just fine.
June 22, 2019 at 9:57 am #34327
Dave Rice
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It’s odd, it doesn’t affect every PC and doesn’t seem hardware specific.

Had a call last night, one of them did it again.
June 22, 2019 at 11:01 am #34329
Boris
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I’ve had a couple of calls too. It is supposedly caused by driver incompatibility between the WiFi adapter and Windows. Disable then re-enabling them in Device Manager and re-installing the drivers seems to have fixed these 2 calls.

Never trust an atom - they make up everything !
June 22, 2019 at 5:26 pm #34336
Richard
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The third machine has now updated with no issue with its WiFi.

So far one machine has received the latests version upgrade with two others awaiting my action to release the new version. I shall wait till I feel more comfortable because of the risks raised by the first machine.
June 25, 2019 at 6:18 pm #34426
Dave Rice
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Well it’s played havoc with my VM Server today.

The host machine itself was working fine but all the Virtual Box machines refused to start as they couldn’t find the PC’s Realtek GBe Family Controller. This was regardless of the guest o/s, it was VBox that couldn’t make the bridged connection to the host adaptor.

For each VM I had to change the network adaptor to anything else then change it back again . I didn’t have to start the VM itself, nor even OK the interim change. I’m busy upgrading the W10 host and guest VMs themselves as the May update seems to cure it.
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