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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
2019-09-22T10:26:28+00:00 Are you able to go into device manager and roll back to Marvell Wifi network
adapter to the previous version? That is the only fix at this time.I'm an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. If you want background
on what a Microsoft MVP is, see https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/Overview and for
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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/page/faq#faqWhosWho1 - I ask every day for
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Anonymous
2019-10-05T12:54:34+00:00 This issue is extremely irritating. Hope there is a fix available.
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Anonymous
2019-10-06T11:21:13+00:00 Hello,
I Have the same issue. Its getting very annoying now. evenry time i get updates, i get the updated driver, and have to roll-back it manually. This is very time consuming. Why does it take this long to make a fix. I love my surface book 2, but how difficult is it to make a descent wifi driver for such a premium device?
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Anonymous
2019-10-07T00:58:56+00:00 Same problem - Surface book 2 i7 - what i want to know is anyone have this working intermittently? - meaning i seem to be able to connect to every other WAP but this one particular one with an araknis router but all others are fine. Another surface pro device (same adapter version) can connect fine to the same network i'm having trouble with - 2.4 or 5g both do not work for me. thanks.