
Choose to select the location of the new driver manually and browse to the folder where you downloaded the driver About Wireless LAN Drivers: Right click on the hardware device you wish to update and choose Update Driver Softwareģ. Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, choose Manage and then find Device Manager in the left panel)Ģ. In order to manually update your driver, follow the steps below (the next steps):ġ. You can use the "Hide Update" option in Windows Update to fix that :).The package provides the installation files for Broadcom 802.11ac Network Adapter Wireless Driver version 7.35.338.0. It might be that Windows 8 will at some point overwrite the driver with a newer Windows 8 driver version. Next and finish should leave you with a working network adapter. It should automatically highlight the correct option: Windows will now show you the driver to install.

Select the "bcmwl6.inf" file and click "open". Right click it and choose Update Driver:Īnd finally navigate to the location you extracted the driver files (which you placed on the clipboard if you followed the instructions to the letter): Open the Device Manager en locate the Broadcom Wireless-N network adapter. Navigate to the Drivers\Win7\WL folder and put that location on your clipboard:

Rolling back to a Windows 7 network driver disables that specific feature on the Windows 8 side, thus allowing you to connect without further issues. The issue is still a compatibility issue between the Windows 8 802.11w implementation and that of Cisco. Except, I had not yet encountered his wireless network adapter. And he was indeed experiencing the same issues, where connections would always fail at work, but not at home. A colleague came to me today, having heard of my attempts to get my Samsung //Build slate to work on our internal (Cisco AP) wireless network.
