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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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Anonymous
2019-08-16T16:52:22+00:00 Hmm .. A quote from a Microsoft Support Forum Volunteer Moderator . Someone get 15 minutes of fame ! I wonder if it is an actual quote, or just filched from a relevant post ? Regardless hopefully this level of exposure might garner enough concern in management circles to invest in better Q&A before future updates.
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Anonymous
2019-08-16T18:20:36+00:00 I agree. I'm an unpaid volunteer. I keep asking for them to post information.
And if you want background on what a Microsoft MVP is, see
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/Overview and for Volunteer Moderators see
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Anonymous
2019-08-16T18:22:12+00:00 >A quote from a Microsoft Support Forum Volunteer Moderator .
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guessing that was *me*. I keep asking an internal contact to have someone post
something officially, but do not get replies.. but he did email me that they
were aware and working on a fix. it is extremely frustrating, to say the least.
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Anonymous
2019-08-16T19:44:55+00:00 Hi Barb! 1903 1862.295
Finally, I was able to get back to previous driver by getting them form http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com. I downloaded CAB file with previous version of drivers, installed them and 5ghz is working normally for me.