Hi, I'm having issues with my wifi after downgrading from windows 8 to windows 7. APPERRRRRANTLY Support has no clue how to fix it (Because ASUS decided not to offer the newer G75VX's in windows 7) and that may be because I was talking to outsourced support who has clue about anything, So I figured I'd try here where the real tech people are. The network adapter is the Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit ethernet controller (NDIS 6.20). I've tried several things but from what I can see the other network adapter that the laptop came with was having a similar issue but it was solved, and that thread can be found here.
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread...-solved-too%29
This ofcourse being for the 802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.0 network adapter, IN ANYCASE. I am pretty good with technology but when it comes to drivers and hardware windows can be pretty complicated, I finally got it to stop updating to the newest 'best' driver for my computer which does NOT work. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it. Also I'm not sure if I could try using a windows 7 driver for a different model ASUS if there would be any similarities or enough similarities for it to work.
If I'm doing something wrong and the link above should work for the AR8151 could someone please go through the steps of manually installing it to my laptop as windows does not think it is a possible driver for the adapter nor is there a setup file inside of the zip provided in the thread above.
So after doing some digging, I found out that for Win 10 you have to be using Driver v2.1.0.26 which was released in 2016. Located the driver on this website:
Qualcomm Atheros Network Controller Driver
https://www.ath-drivers.eu/download-driver-nr-315-for-atheros-AR8151-and-Windows10.html
Network Adapters - Atheros - Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Computer Driver Updates Device types / Network Adapters / Atheros / Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Driver Description. Download Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) [Acer. Atheros LAN Driver for Windows 7 32/64bit,Windows XP SP3 32 bit,Windows. Qualcomm Atheros - LAN - Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet. PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20), Windows 7, Drivers (Other. Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) Driver for Acer - Aspire 4830TG working on Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Device Name: Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20). Tech Tip: If you are having trouble deciding which is the right driver, try the Driver Update Utility for Atheros AR8151 PCI E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20). It is a software utility that will find the right driver for you - automatically. DriverGuide maintains an extensive archive of Windows drivers available for free download. Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Driver for MEGAWARE - MW-H61H2-M2 working on Microsoft Windows 7 Professional.
1) Download driver, save it onto desktop for easy access
2) Start 'Device Manager'
3) Click 'Network Adapters'
Lan Control
4) Right Click 'Qualcomm Atheros AR 8161...'
5) 'Update Driver'
6) Click 'Browse my computer for driver software'
7) Click 'Let me pick from a list...'
8) Click 'Have Disk'
9) Click 'Browse'
10) Locate & Select the files that have been downloaded (if its saved onto your desktop, you should be able to scroll down to see that there's a file called 'netl1c63x64' setup file (I'm running 64bit btw)).
10) Update the driver and mine worked instantly!! Took me few hours of trial and error with various drivers... Hope this helps!
UPDATE 10/2/2017
Scratch that, it worked fine last wk and when I logged in this morning, stopped working all over again. Back to square one....
Just wondering if this hardware is even compatible with windows 10 at this point.