801.11n Driver For Windows 10
Giorgina Makara
Hi, recently i have been having BSOD due to Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN, i have been looking for its drivers for Windows 8 but can't seem to find them. Did Intel release its drivers for Windows 8 yet? If yes where can i find it?
The Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN is not supported under Windows* 8. But Microsoft* did include some base drivers for it. Unfortunately there are no downloadable drivers for this wireless adapter, see below:
Appears there is a sufficient workaround by disabling 802.11n mode. I've recently experienced similar problems with the 4965AGN and Windows 8, including intermittent wireless disconnects that would only restore if the machine were rebooted. On another discussion thread someone had mentioned that there problems went away when they disabled Wireless-N on the adapter. I did the same and I've had no problems since. Downloading the latest drivers from MS and Intel did not fix the problem, it was isolating 802.11n wireless-N mode that did the trick. From other discussion threads it appears the 4965AGN has had issues going back a number of years. Regardless of who is responsible for this driver, I'm glad to have finally found a workaround and my ThinkPad T61P with Intel wireless is working like a champ on Windows 8 by merely disabling 802.11n mode.
I've been using the default driver provided by Microsoft (dated 15/08/2010) and originally had issues like you described - random disconnects that would only be solved by rebooting the laptop. On a hunch, I disabled the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" option, like so:
One thing I noticed is that once the power savings kick in, the connection info would display 54Mbps even though my router is capable of 300Mbps (the adapter usually shows 80-117Mbps in the status window). To me, it looks like windows suspends the adapter partially (only the N part) then gets confused by that and can't wake it up - because it's not fully in sleep mode.
I've tried both this and the disable N wifi solution above but none works. But then I uninstall the driver and rescan hardware, now the wifi is running perfectly without uncheck power-off option and without rolling back to slow b/g wifi
@Bryan your suggestion worked for me. Thank you so much. After 3 days of trying all the other suggestions, and any that I could come up with I was ready to toss my 2007 laptop. Just disabling 801.11n worked and has worked for 2 days now. Perhaps it's a combo of unchecking Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power and your suggestion, but it's working now
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after installing the file, go to the folder it unpacked to. do the setup. Then after completing it still didn't work for me, which seemed weird. Perhaps this was all it took for you to make it work, in which case, congrats.
I followed the steps given by phantom except step 5 as the previous program was already uninstalled from both device manager and windows program uninstall in step one itself. THe driver is installed but it is not able to connect to Windows 10. Using R074 TU noteback by HP and Windows 10. Any help here?
Also, I can add one step here: I was helped by this link to enable an Administrator account in Windows 10. My normal account, though having admin rights, was not allowed to install the program where the link was given by Phantom456 - trust useful for someone with same issue
I have try to do as you have write down but the driver do not help on my computer... but step 5 i dont know how to do.. when i install the new driver but i cant uninstall the previously installed ralink driver.... i have 4 on my computer there is in windows... but no program to uninstall. what do i do wrong?
Is this some limitation in the RP4 hardware that the community knows about? Is there a way to edit the /etc/config/wireless file to make it use 801.11n at 2.4 GHz that Luci won't do? Or am I doing something else wrong? When I try such edits, the radio is just disabled.
Under 'Legacy" the wireless connection is limited to 65.0 Mbit/s with effective throughput much lower than that. Checking the connection in Windows Properties, it says the connection is "Wi-Fi 4, (802.11n) 65 Mbps."
Interesting. Why then can I set it up as an 801.11ac wireless using 5 Ghz and it works with that protocol and frequency? The driver for that is supported? Or is the 2.4 GHz chip a Broadcom and the 5 GHz chip something else? I thought it was just the one radio in the RP4.
The onboard WLAN chipset works, but isn't very capable or fast. It's dual-band, but not concurrent dual-band, so you can choose only a single band/ channel to work with - either 2.4 GHz XOR 5 GHz. There are no valid interface combinations (so no 'repeater mode'), it can only handle a (fairly) limited number of connected clients, range and throughput are very much on the low end.
Interesting to learn these new little details. I want to avoid any dongles so I'll have to settle for the lower speed, and just use 802.11ac at 5 GHz - getting about 50 mbps throughput on a 500 mbps internet connection when I'm 15 feet from the router. The Pi 4 is not my main router, I'm just going for the simplest portable router setup possible with only the drivers and packages needed.
Internet connects to the built-in Ethernet Port and built-in wireless provides the Wi-Fi LAN connection. I added OpenVPN too which I can toggle on and off easily and the commercial VPN services are providing me about the same download speed as the RP 4 can handle. So I've got my cigarette pack sized router with VPN.
I have another micro-SD card with the built-in wireless setup to connect to the internet and the built-in Ethernet provides the LAN with optional OpenVPN and it's a cigarette pack sized wireless bridge. Throughput about the same.
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