I disabled my Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport
network adapter from Control PanelNetwork and InternetNetwork Connections
.
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Just right clicked on the miniport nic and clicked disable, and its gone. Now how could I enable it?After disabling the nic, netsh wlan start hostednetwork
is not working any more. The response is,
The hosted network couldn't be started.The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
It was working flawlessly, before I disabled the adapter,Anyway, for reference here is the output of netsh wlan show drivers,
Interface name: Wi-Fi
netsh wlan show hostednetwork,
After executing,
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow
The hosted network mode has been set to allow.
But again in,
netsh wlan show hostednetwork
netsh wlan show settings
Any idea how to re-enable the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport adapter (in Windows 8 Pro RTM)? I'm at my wits end, Please help :(
You go to your 'device manager', find your 'network adapters', then should find the virtual wifi adapter, then right click it and enable it. After that, you start your cmd with admin privileges, then try:
From accepted answer:
You go to your 'device manager', find your 'network adapters', then should find the virtual wifi adapter, then right click it and enable it
Maybe your device is hidden - first you should unhide it from the device manger, then re-enable the adapter from the device manger tools.
I had the exact problem and I couldn't find the hosted network adapter in network connections or device manager. So what I did was to disable and enable the wifi adapter after this the hosted network adapter should be listed in the device manager, then you just enable the adapter from there.
I have the same issue after I disabled the adapter in the Network setting. But when I go to the System->Device Manager and find it from the 'Network adapters' and re-enable it. Then everything works again.
In my case I had to uninstall and reinstall the wireless adapter driver to be able to execute the command
In the device manager you can selectView > Show hidden devices
Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport
should start and bind automatically to the underlying function driver. Try disabling and reenabling the AR9285
driver.
Try to add this hotfix:hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Windows%20Server2008%20R2%20SP1/sp2/Fix362872/7600/free/427221_intl_i386_zip.exe
and then execute in command prompt (ADMIN)
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
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