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Cannot connect WNDA4100 with Windows 10!!!
I just upgraded to Windows 10 about 2 days ago and as soon as I upgraded, my WNDA4100 Network Adapter quit working. The LED's no longer light up when it is plugged in. I went to netgear's website and...
I just updated to Windows10 and had a similar problem (driver works, but could not connect to 5Ghz). I dug through forums and found similar problems to mine (and possibly yours?).
This link has a nifty quick-fix, and possible reason as to why you are experiencing this problem.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-hardware/wnda4100-loses-5ghz-after-81-update/d7ea4ec7-d60c-4216-b611-b6803324897e?auth=1
If you don't want to read through it, I'll quote the specifics here:"Hey there,
I encountered this exact same problem this morning - I ended up finding a way around it after some research.
- Press the Windows + X key, then select "Device Manager" from the menu in the lower-left hand corner of your screen.
- Find your Netgear WNDA4100 adapter under "Network adapters." Right click it and select "Update Driver Software..."
- Select "Browse my computer for driver software."
- Click "Let me pick..."
- You should see one driver from Microsoft and one from Netgear. Select the one from Netgear, click Next, and follow the installation prompts.
If you do not see the driver from Netgear, navigate to their support site and download the standard Windows 8 driver. After installation, you should see both.
For whatever reason, 8.1 defaults to the Microsoft driver. After enabling the Netgear driver, you should have full access to the 5GHz band.
Hope this helps!"
With windows 10, this worked for me, only there's a few differences in the steps that I'll outline here,
For the list of drivers, you should see a few drivers listed for your netgear adapter, next to them will be little certificates. You should see at least one that says "NETGEAR WNDA4100 N900 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter (NETGEAR Inc.)" Select this driver (I had 2 listed, so I used the topmost listed) and finish the install process. This should reset your adapter driver and allow you to connect to either of your networks using the genie software.
I hope this helps, as I am glad it fixed mine.
No tried all that and it didn't work.
Still no lights on wireless dongle. Even tried my older VN111v2 and they wont work either.
Comes up with right name in Device manager but with yellow exclamation mark, try to change the driver and get error 39 as they will just not load.
Still cannot detect adapter with genie. Downloaded what Netgear say is Windows 10
Even tried rolling back USB 3.0 drivers as the one on there now looks new but nothing.
Yes everything else USB works. flash drives, scanner, printer, phone but using the phone tethered will not work come to think of it.
USB 3.0 works faster like it should. Was thinking it could be Kaspersky blocking so I turned it off and still same results.
When I plug in can hear the noise so computer definately knows its there, then check device manager it has chosen correct device but it has yellow exclamation mark on it.
Exactly same happens for WN111v2.
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) {Unable to Load Device Driver} %hs device driver could not be loaded. Error Status was 0x%x
How do I uninstall all NETGEAR drivers and start again? If I uninstall Genie it takes one driver but still one left and when I plug adapter in it comes up in Device manager so must be recognizing it? It was working fine then just stopped so I am supposing it has something to do with a Windows 10 auto-update?Yes everything works just fine except wireless or usb internet?
Pretty sure it's not a Netgear issue as I cant even use my phone tethered for internet via USB?
Not sure. Lucky I have Ethernet over power.
