No WiFi Adapter

Jorhauck94

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Hello,

I have a NEO Z83-4 Pro. I recently re imaged the pc because it was running out of space and needed to be updated. Now I do not have WiFi. I have no adapter for WiFi.

I followed the instructions from https://theminixforum.com/index.php?threads/neo-z83-4-manually-install-the-driver.31/ but in the directions it says go to Device Manager and update the driver.. I have no driver to update. I will attach screenshots of what I am seeing.

Hopefully someone can help me.
 

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You have no network driver yet, but there is a problem visible with the SDIO driver which I guess is the WiFi card. That is the one that is missing it’s driver!
 
Hello,

I have a NEO Z83-4 Pro. I recently re imaged the pc because it was running out of space and needed to be updated. Now I do not have WiFi. I have no adapter for WiFi.

I followed the instructions from https://theminixforum.com/index.php?threads/neo-z83-4-manually-install-the-driver.31/ but in the directions it says go to Device Manager and update the driver.. I have no driver to update. I will attach screenshots of what I am seeing.

Hopefully someone can help me.
When you right-click the item with that yellow icon and "Update the driver", you may locate to "Drivers" folder, rather than "wifi driver".
Let me know if it will work.
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Hi Martin

I had this problem with no wifi and a yellow exclamation mark on the WiFi device in Device Manager. I am running a fully updated Windows as of March 4th 2019, with the feature update to Windows 10, version 1809 and the 2019-02 cumulative update for .Net and Security update for Adobe Flash.

I was able to solve it following these instructions, but it was a bit confusing. I downloaded the Z83-4 CherryTrail-T3-64bit drivers and followed the instructions but when I tried to update the driver, Windows Device Manager says "The best drivers for your device are already installed". "Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed. There may be better drivers on Windows Update or the device manufacturer's website".

I ignored that and followed the Readme.txt with the wifi driver that says to copy the 4345r6nvram.txt file to C:\Windows\System32\drivers
After I did that and rebooted, the wifi worked.

It would be nice if Minix could work with Microsoft to make this automatic. Copying a file into system32\drivers and rebooting reminds me of how things were in the 90s :)
 
Hi Martin

I had this problem with no wifi and a yellow exclamation mark on the WiFi device in Device Manager. I am running a fully updated Windows as of March 4th 2019, with the feature update to Windows 10, version 1809 and the 2019-02 cumulative update for .Net and Security update for Adobe Flash.

I was able to solve it following these instructions, but it was a bit confusing. I downloaded the Z83-4 CherryTrail-T3-64bit drivers and followed the instructions but when I tried to update the driver, Windows Device Manager says "The best drivers for your device are already installed". "Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed. There may be better drivers on Windows Update or the device manufacturer's website".

I ignored that and followed the Readme.txt with the wifi driver that says to copy the 4345r6nvram.txt file to C:\Windows\System32\drivers
After I did that and rebooted, the wifi worked.

It would be nice if Minix could work with Microsoft to make this automatic. Copying a file into system32\drivers and rebooting reminds me of how things were in the 90s :)
Shouldn't it be a piece of cake to copy a file from one folder to another ;)
 
Hi Martin

I had this problem with no wifi and a yellow exclamation mark on the WiFi device in Device Manager. I am running a fully updated Windows as of March 4th 2019, with the feature update to Windows 10, version 1809 and the 2019-02 cumulative update for .Net and Security update for Adobe Flash.

I was able to solve it following these instructions, but it was a bit confusing. I downloaded the Z83-4 CherryTrail-T3-64bit drivers and followed the instructions but when I tried to update the driver, Windows Device Manager says "The best drivers for your device are already installed". "Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed. There may be better drivers on Windows Update or the device manufacturer's website".

I ignored that and followed the Readme.txt with the wifi driver that says to copy the 4345r6nvram.txt file to C:\Windows\System32\drivers
After I did that and rebooted, the wifi worked.

It would be nice if Minix could work with Microsoft to make this automatic. Copying a file into system32\drivers and rebooting reminds me of how things were in the 90s :)

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LOL ;).

EDIT: Do be serious, Microsoft's own in house departments can't even liaise & talk to each other without completely dicking things up ;)!!! Let alone work with 3rd party distributors.
 
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Hello,

I have a NEO Z83-4 Pro. I recently re imaged the pc because it was running out of space and needed to be updated. Now I do not have WiFi. I have no adapter for WiFi.

I followed the instructions from https://theminixforum.com/index.php?threads/neo-z83-4-manually-install-the-driver.31/ but in the directions it says go to Device Manager and update the driver.. I have no driver to update. I will attach screenshots of what I am seeing.

Hopefully someone can help me.

Had the same issue - instruction did help, now it even support 802.11a - 5GHz
 
After a recent Windows update to Windows 10 Pro version 1909, I have lost the ability to use the WiFi adapter. In device manager, it is listed as Generic SDIO device. I have attempted to use the instructions above with the downloaded driver, but the driver will not install. Is there another update?
 
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After a recent Windows update to Windows 10 Pro version 1909, I have lost the ability to use the WiFi adapter. In device manager, it is listed as Generic SDIO device. I have attempted to use the instructions above with the downloaded driver, but the driver will not install. Is there another update?

Hey & welcome to the forum :).

Have you attempted all of the posted solutions from post #3, post #4 & post #5 or just tried one of them?

I ignored that and followed the Readme.txt with the wifi driver that says to copy the 4345r6nvram.txt file to C:\Windows\System32\drivers
After I did that and rebooted, the wifi worked.

Have you attempted this particular solution too?
 
Just to share an odd problem, and, fix.

Attached is the screen shot of a WIFI error after the latest Windows Update, and, just changed out to a new Comcast Modem.
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Tried deleting the device in "Device Manager" and let Windows reload it. No change.
Downloaded a fresh copy of the drivers from the link in the prior posts. ("new" file was same name/size/file date as the one I already had)
Copied file to location stated in prior posts.
Rebooted.
Still wouldn't connect, but, computer at least recognized the WIFI adapter with no error and "Device status" = "This device is working properly"
Went through the Windows troubleshooter, WIFI connected.

Working now.

Strange indication. Thought I had lost the WIFI adapter.

Corrupted driver?? Windows Update (last one was several days prior to error). Wifi was working with new modem (settings issue potential)..

Or, it started to snow today... who knows.
 
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Your device is listed as Broadcom 802.11ac. My device is listed as a generic SDIO device. All attempts to update the driver have failed.

Not sure what to try next. Does this look like an adapter hardware failure?

I have 30 of these units and this is the only one that is giving me trouble.
 

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Edit: Just when I thought is was safe to go back in the water...
The fix I found below worked for a few days, and then back to the same problem, but this time the services were on Auto, and running. What can it be??? The only event that occurred between then and the problem reoccurring was a "Hardware Driver Fix" that Windows said was needed, but wouldn't say what it was fixing. I like a Lemming said go ahead, so it's back to the drawing board.
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I've had the no Wi-Fi problem for the last 2 weeks or so. I've hacked around with the Device Manager and found that the device (Broadcom 802.11ac...) device was there but with the can't start messages. I noted that when looking at my network options, there was no Wi-Fi option, only Bluetooth and Ethernet. I got exasperated with all the driver update suggestions (which didn't work) and did an uninstall on the Broadcom... which was a near fatal decision, now I've go no internet, and the confusing process of installing it. I found that there was a Generic SDIO device and succeeded in installing the Broadcom over/on it, but sadly the no start problem still existed.

Then I decided to try to Disable the device, then Enable it (using Device Manager). It started working?!?! It worked until I shutdown, then on the next startup it was out again. So while researching the problem, including trying to create a batch file to do the Disable/Enable (which won't work, because there's no Wi-Fi available) I finally worked my way into the services.msc command and found that the WIFI Direct Services Connection Manager Service, and the Windows Connection Manager were both on "Manual" startup. Changing them to automatic seems to have fixed the problem. I've got no idea when or how they got changed, as they must have been automatic before this started, but there was that one Windows Update a few weeks ago so maybe MS was trying to do a number on me??

I'm a retired Instructional Systems Designer (I wrote and taught mainframe maintenance programming) but this got me almost to the point of finding a new machine to run my EMBY server on. I don't like leaving everything on 24/7 and the manual process of re-enabling the adapter everyday was not going to work. Now all I have to do is find out why my SD card isn't working...
 
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