I have a USB wireless adapter that works very well...until I make any kind of change to my network adapters. For example:
If I install VirtualBox or VMware (both of which install virtual network adapters), my wireless adapter stops working and must be reinstalled. (It has a yellow exclamation in Device Manager and Windows claims it can't find a driver for it.)
If I switch from my wireless adapter to my wired adapter (by shutting down, removing the wireless adapter, attaching an Ethernet cable and restarting), the wired adapter works fine. But when I switch back to my wireless adapter (by shutting down, removing the Ethernet cable, re-attaching the wireless adapter and restarting) then once again my wireless adapter stops working and must be reinstalled. (It has a yellow exclamation in Device Manager and Windows claims it can't find a driver for it.)
This doesn't make sense. I should not have to reinstall my wireless adapter every time I make a change.
Can anyone recognize what's going wrong here?
If I install VirtualBox or VMware (both of which install virtual network adapters), my wireless adapter stops working and must be reinstalled. (It has a yellow exclamation in Device Manager and Windows claims it can't find a driver for it.)
If I switch from my wireless adapter to my wired adapter (by shutting down, removing the wireless adapter, attaching an Ethernet cable and restarting), the wired adapter works fine. But when I switch back to my wireless adapter (by shutting down, removing the Ethernet cable, re-attaching the wireless adapter and restarting) then once again my wireless adapter stops working and must be reinstalled. (It has a yellow exclamation in Device Manager and Windows claims it can't find a driver for it.)
This doesn't make sense. I should not have to reinstall my wireless adapter every time I make a change.
Can anyone recognize what's going wrong here?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8