Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. – Net – 15.68.17013.110 WiFi driver breaks 5GHz connection on the Surface Book (1st Gen i5 with dGPU 256 GB)

Anonymous
2019-08-04T02:22:56+00:00

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
2019-09-27T21:26:13+00:00

Thank you for reporting the issue. A fix is now available through Windows Update.

For more information, please visit our Surface Update History page.

Eddy.

Updated: 11/18/2019

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-11-05T06:07:49+00:00

    Eddy:

    What about this... How can you say "No Known Issues" for Surface Pro, when clearly you guys know about this...

    I guess Quality is NOT a top priority.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4037238/surface-pro-5th-gen-update-history

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-11-05T11:09:28+00:00

    they are supposed to release 1909 a week from today, but in the meantime, you

    can install "fixed" drivers by carefully following the instructions I wrote up

    at

    https://digitalmediaphile.com/index.php/2019/10/29/how-to-install-fixed-surface-wifi-drivers-in-1903-without-upgrading-to-1909/

    This works only if you are on 1903/18362.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-11-05T11:12:44+00:00

    I've emailed a contact with your info

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-11-06T05:12:05+00:00

    Hi Barb,

    Thank you. It seems like you are the only one paying attention to this problem. 

    When is MSFT going to give a care about their customers. 

    I'm seriously using my Macbook to do this, because the Surface is just so unreliable.

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