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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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-05T17:54:17+00:00

    the wifi channel is setted as automatic for me, which means that by default it is set at channel 149

    and the brand and model router is the Hitron CGNM-2250 Advanced WiFi Modem

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-05T10:35:13+00:00

    or the Wireless Channel (which i am at number 149)

    if you change the channel, any change or not?
    what brand and model router?

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-05T02:41:53+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.

    "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."

    Then I believe that you need to post some kind of picture or debug log here for them to see if possible

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