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Updated: 11/18/2019
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. – Net – 15.68.17013.110 WiFi driver breaks 5GHz connection on the Surface Book (1st Gen i5 with dGPU 256 GB)
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The title says it all, I updated the wifi driver to "Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. – Net – 15.68.17013.110", and after that update, I can't connect to a 5GHz wifi connection, I can only connect to 2.4 GHz. when i try to connect to the 5GHz, it says: "Unable to connect to this network". Uninstalling the wifi driver, and restarting the device did help me get the 5GHz connection back to my Surface book, but when i decided to try to install the same driver again, and try to connect to 5GHz again, the same "Unable to connect to this network" appears. Does anyone have this issue?
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2019-08-04T11:12:54+00:00 - what wifi channel is your 5GHz SSID set to? is it on auto select?
- where are you geographically?
- when you say you uninstalled the driver, do you mean rolled back to previous version?
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Anonymous
2019-08-04T21:41:32+00:00 - what do you mean by "wifi channel"? do you mean what's my wifi channel bandwidth (the 20 MHz; 40 MHz; 80 MHz one), or the Wireless Channel (which i am at number 149)?
- Regardless of where am I, close to the router or at upstairs, it will say: "Unable to connect to this network"i try to connect to the 5GHz. When i decided to rollback the driver i was able to establish 5 GHz connection again, which means the Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. – Net – 15.68.17013.110 WiFi driver is curpit when i decided to rollback the driver
- Yes, i had to roll back to the previous version of the wifi driver
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Anonymous
2019-08-05T02:17:20+00:00 I have the same problem with the same driver version as well, applied on 8-1-2019. Your post gave me an idea that maybe it was just the 5GHz channel, but alas, I have the same issue with the 2.4GHz spectrum as well; I went to force the band of the Marvell AVASTAR WiFi adapter to 2.4GHz only and it still would not connect.
I have the Surface Pro (Gen4.5? it's the one where they didn't announce the version) but my experience is the exact same as yours; the moment that driver was applied, I can no longer attach to my home WiFi system (UniFi). Interestingly, the Surface Pro WILL attach to the WiFi hotspot on my iPhone.
Very interesting issue for sure. I normally have this system docked and using Ethernet, but I'm about to travel with it of course.
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Anonymous
2019-08-05T02:27:52+00:00 I wanted to add that I rolled back the WiFi adapter driver to 15.68.9127.58 and all is well. I can now connect on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. I found a high number of WPA association failures in my UniFi controller logs that are likely the culprit, but I do not have the wherewithal at the moment to troubleshoot further. The old driver meets my needs. I'll let the devs sort this one out.