My WNDA4100 N900 WiFi USB adapter, that worked perfectly on windows 7 (64bit), has stopped working once I installed the windows10 upgrade . When using the installer it would say the adapter hasn't been found. I tried uninstalling all netgear related applications and downloading the latest driver. Not even the light on the adapter will turn on at all.
When I upgraded to Win 10 I first could not detect my 5ghz network and then when I tried re-installing the software I could not get my 2.4 ghz to work. No light, no nothing no internet. Seems Netgear could have seen this coming? What can I do to get back on the internet? Please help?
This has happened at every successive version of windows - the adapter wouldn't work after upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8, same with upgrade to Windows 8.1 from 8, and now it seems that Netgear has done it again. I tried installing the drivers from the site, but if you look at the date on the driver following install, its a year old (Dated 6-6-2014) - which means it was not intended to work with Windows 10. The driver package is even called Win_8. What I fully expect to happen is that within a week or two Netgear will post a new driver package and then blame the whole fiasco on Microsoft--which has been their response for the past two upgrade fails.
This user has found a workaround - it essentially involves removing the default driver from version 13 of the software from Realtek that is being loaded and replacing it with another driver. Version 13 of the Netgear software is http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/product/WNDA4100#searchResults
Watch the video on Youtube or follow my instructions below.
Control Panel --> Device Manager --Network Adapters --> Netgear WNDA4100 --> Right Click -- Update Driver Software -- Browse my Compuiter -- > Let me Pick from a List of device drivers on my computer -- > Then use the driver marked Netgear (second in the list), DO NOT use the one marked as Realtek as it is what is causing the problem. After installing the new driver, you may need to reboot but this worked for me.
I'm having the same issue. When I try to install the standalone driver or the software at some point it freezes and won't complete the installation. If I go to the Device Manager the wifi adapter shows up. However, for the life of me I can't get it to work.
Tried that but since the installation of the driver freezes it never fully loads the driver onto the system so there are no Netgear drivers to choose from.
The first thing I would do is make sure you have a the latest drivers from your PC manufactor for your usb ports. Second uninstall all of your netgear network adapters drivers then reinstall the latest driver without the usb adapter plugged into the pc. after you have install the drivers then try to plug the usb adapter back into the pc. We are also working on drivers so if this dosnt work let me know some info about your PC and what issues your still having.
1. Did you upgrade from windows 7 or 8 or did a clean install of win 10
