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I'm working on an older (3-4 years) HP laptop with a Realtek RTL8188EE wifi adapter. It's running Windows 10 with all available updates. (At least all that I can get it to recognize and install)
Apparently this issue has been going on for awhile but was just recently brought to my attention, as the wired networking works just fine.
When attempting to connect to a WiFi network, Windows tells me "Can't connect to this network".
"This network" could be the user's wifi, my home wifi, or even my work's public or secure wifi. It won't connect to any of them. Same error.
Over the past two days I've :
It's almost like it connects, disables / enables the adapter, and then can't connect.
At times, it doesn't see all available networks, but I wouldn't necessarily deem that as unusual, except here at work where I know the signals are usually pretty good, it's odd.
I don't know where to go with this at this point.
My plan is to stop and pickup a cheap USB WiFi adapter to see if it will work, but I'd like to get the built in adapter working if possible.
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next?
Thanks.
Apparently this issue has been going on for awhile but was just recently brought to my attention, as the wired networking works just fine.
When attempting to connect to a WiFi network, Windows tells me "Can't connect to this network".
"This network" could be the user's wifi, my home wifi, or even my work's public or secure wifi. It won't connect to any of them. Same error.
Over the past two days I've :
- Made sure all Microsoft updates were installed
- Updated the Driver from HP Support Site
- Rolled back the Driver to an older version I found
- Installed even newer driver from HP found in a Google search
- Updated all other hardware drivers where an update was available
- Booted to Safe Mode
- "Clean Booted"
- Uninstalled the card completely
- Made sure there wasn't any conflicting wifi software running
- Disabled Windows Defender and Firewall
- Fiddled, multiple times, with the various card settings
- Reset IP stack / etc.
- Updated BIOS
- and probably other things I can't remember at the moment
It's almost like it connects, disables / enables the adapter, and then can't connect.
At times, it doesn't see all available networks, but I wouldn't necessarily deem that as unusual, except here at work where I know the signals are usually pretty good, it's odd.
I don't know where to go with this at this point.
My plan is to stop and pickup a cheap USB WiFi adapter to see if it will work, but I'd like to get the built in adapter working if possible.
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next?
Thanks.