I recently put in my laptop a Intel Centrino Wireless N 1030. Windows sees it fine, and the hardware itself works. The problem is however I have no physical switch for WiFi, and the radio wont turn on using the laptops  function key for it (FN + F12). I have tried the latest drivers and older drivers.

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P850. I have the latest drivers for rest of the hardware installed. the WiFi function key does work but seems to have no effect on the WiFi card, even tho the flash cards work, and the Pro-Set software can see the card. In both my Windows 7 and Ubuntu builds (and intel proset software) on the system it says the WiFi is turned off by the hardware switch as said above i don't have one, nor does the function key seem to work with it.

This fourm post on Toshiba's forum outlines what I have tried so far: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=299642#299642 NOTE: I am JMZ10 on that forum.

Before replying please read that post carefully, as I have tried quite a lot of things, checked a lot of things and so on.

I dunno if its much use coming to intel for help but I figure its worth a try, thanks in advance.

Hello I have a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop, running Windows 7 64bit.

This laptop originally had an old Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini Card (wifi g) installed in it and it worked fine.

I decided to upgrade to wifi ac, and thus purchased an Intel Dual Band wireless AC 7260 card.

Intel Product Link

I physically uninstalled the old Dell 1397 WLAN mini card, and replaced it with the new Intel 7260 AC card.

The physical installation of the card was very simple, and i had no issues.

Once I booted into windows I then installed the latest Intel ProSet drivers for the Intel 7260 ac card obtained from the Intel website.

The Intel 7260 drivers installed successfully (according to the Intel installer).

Windows could now properly see the card in device manager, which also reported that the device was working properly.

The new Intel 7260 adapter could also be seen within windows network connections with a status of "enabled"

My laptop's BIOS can also see the card listed as Intel wireless, within the wireless section.

So at first glance it would appear as if everything was fine.. that is until I actually tried to use the card to connect to anything. Upon trying to connect windows will report the following issue in the network troubleshooters advanced details section "Windows couldn't automatically bind the IP protocol stack to the network adapter"

Also when I run the intel ProSet diagnostics application I get the following error under the hardware category "Wireless Hardware is not bound to transport driver". And the ProSet Application cannot see the intel 7260 card (even though it is present in device manager).

I searched online for information on the Proset and Windows network troubleshooter error messages, and found a few forums where people said to try ntsh ip and winsock resets. I tried these resets, yet none of them solved the problem..

Other ideas suggested on various forums was to check to make sure that my WLAN AutoConfig service was running.

I checked and confirmed that it was running and on automatic startup..So that also did not help.

I also tried uninstalling the intel ProSet application and driver package, and then installed the driver only package (without ProSet) and this made no difference, as the same problem persists.

I have also made sure there were no strange entries within the wireless network connection properties.

The only entries listed are the usual ones (Client for microsoft networks, QOS packet scheduler, File printer sharing, TCP IPV6, TCP IPV4,Link layer topology discovery mapper io driver, link layer topology discovery responder)

Having run out of ideas on what to try next, I took out the SSD from my laptop, and installed a spare blank Hard drive.

I then did a fresh virgin installation of Windows 7 64bit, with all of the latest windows updates.

Then I installed the driver only package for the Intel wireless 7260 ac card (no Proset) obtained from the Intel website.

And I was happy to see that the card worked perfectly fine.

So this test on a spare hard drive confirms that the Intel wireless 7260 ac card works, and is compatible with my laptop (no regulatory/white list/ manufacture blocking issues)

Unfortunately I do not have the will or patience to completely re-do my main OS setup with all my programs, settings etc.. on my primary OS on my SSD.

SO back to my issue.. which is how can I get this Intel 7260 ac card working on my main OS and SSD, there must be some fix that to solve the two errors that I reported above.

TL;DR I cannot use my new Intel wireless 7260 ac card to connect to anything, until i fix the problem outlined by the two error messages listed above. I know this card is compatible with my laptop, which i confirmed with a fresh windows install on a separate hard drive.

I would really appreciate someones help with this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Is Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 supports wake on wireless LAN from power off (S5) state? WoWLAN from sleep (S3) state works fine, but I can't wake my copmuter from power off state.

I'm on Windows 8.1, I installed the Bluetooth software and the WiFi software several times, uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers several times, I've ensured that I'm on the latest bios, I've tried the generic windows BT driver, and it refuses to work. The driver always gets a code 43 or a code 10 seconds after installing. Screenshots attached.

Is this a known issue? Is there any way of fixing it? Should I be returning the card until a version comes out with the kinks worked out?

Hi Guys

I have the following issue, I have a setup with router AC66u, netgear nas drive, and recently I replaced my wlan card on M15x(win7 64bit) with 7260 AC. When I transfer a file to the NAS i only get around 5MBps, but when I transfer a file from NAS to my PC I can get 35MBps.

Everything works fine under a Ethernet cable.

Just wondering if anyone have the similar issue?  

I have a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 in my laptop.

When I connect to three different N routers I only get 54mbps connection.

I have read a lot of other cases regarding this and tried everything of settings both in the routers and for the WLAN card, but the speed does not change.

I have set the 20/40MHz to Auto on both freq.band on the router, activated 802.11N only on the 5,4Ghz band, enabled N mode on the network card, used WPA2/AES security on the router.

But when I select 802.11N only on the router the laptop want connect at all and when I start the Intel software for the networkcard it says that the network is an A network and it want connect at all.

When I set the router to combined G and N it connects, but gets only 54Mbps so I guess it connects as a G network. I have tried this on three different routers (Dlink DIR-655 (only 2,4Ghz), Dlink DIR-826L and a Netgear WNDR3700.

I uses the latest drivers from Intel for the WLAN card and runs on Windows 8.1 on my laptop.

Tried to use both Windows and Intel software without any difference.

Anyone that can help me?

Hello,

I have Intel AC7260 and there is a problem: after every wake from sleep mode i have limited access and no connection to the Internet. I can't ping router and any device in the network... Sometimes helps to reconnect but most often I need toreboot :/ Can someone help me please?

Dear All,

I've got a problem with my brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T440s and Intel Dual Band Wireless N 7260.

I run the speedtest.net on it.

Connection between my router (TP-LINK- "n" connection established) and my t440s is in amount of 144 mbits.

I've checked my t440s with speedtest.net and the highest download value  was 20 Mb/s. It seems to me like it is only b/g connection.

What should I do to receive hi speed (80mbits) connection?

All my older notebooks my WiFi works with speed of 80 Mb/s. So there is a problem with t440s

I have updated the drivers to 17.0.0 and it is a bit better - download value is amounting of 34 Mb/s, but still it's not 80 Mb/s

I've checked in Intel Dual Band Wireless N-7260 driver settings - Energy management - Permission to disabled this device due to energy save is not on.

In Power Supply Profiles I set the Maximum performance in WiFi card settings.

My router is TP LINK WR841-N (run in N mode)

Dear Intel it's funny that brand new Wireless card works slower than iPad mini Retina or my 2 old Dell computers.

Any suggestions?

hi.

I have notebook with Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1030 chips and using well for ap mode by Intel My WiFi Dashboard.

but, yesterday I updated some software include wireless and it' doesn't work anymore

Intel My WiFi Dashboard is operated with lite version and I can't activiate ap mode.

I check softversion  Intel My WiFi Dashboard is 15.6.0   and  Intel® PROSet/Wireless Software and Drivers for Windows 7*  is 16.11.0.

I don't know why it doesn't work. I think, there something collision between two softare. but, I can't find lower version of each software/drivers

I also try windows ad-hoc  but  andriod system doesn't support it and if it does, seems to hard.

actually, my sister needs to using ap mode in dormitory and I can touch with her only remote support.

please, someone give me advice^^

Hi all.

Recently acquired a Lenovo T440 that has an AC-7260. I have been unable to connect to wireless networks that use enterprise authentication (requires a username and password, which then issues a certificate).

I am able to get to the fields that allow me to enter my username and password but the connection/authentication ends/fails and never downloads the certificate. I tested on two different networks (at work and at school) with credentials that I confirmed to be valid (I tried on someone else's laptop).

I have tried on both clean installs of Win 7 and Win 8 (8.1). Tried with the full software suite for the WiFi and just the barebones driver. All failed.

Any insight on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi,

Intel dual band wireless-n 7260 for testing the wifi and Bluetooth.

I am new to wifi and buletooth environment I am unable to detect the wireless card in the setup

My System Environment:

Bayley bay Board Mini PCIe slot - Intel dual band wireless-n 7260

ubuntu 12.4

Linux 3.8 kernel version

Bringup:

1. Insterted the Intel dual band wireless-n 7260 in the Mini PCIe slot in the bayley bay board.

2. Checked for the Intel dual band wireless-n 7260 PCIe devices through "lspci" command - not detected

3. But i am able list the device in the " lsusb"

I have the following queries

Why the wireless-n 7260 will not list in the PCIe tree ?

I need the sequence of detecting/enumaration for this card and how to verify my card is present or not?

Is there linux driver and any uboot code support for this card in the bayley bay board?

Please help me out in this issue

Thanks in advance

I recently put in my laptop a Intel Centrino Wireless N 1030. Windows sees it fine, and the hardware itself works. The problem is however I have no physical switch for WiFi, and the radio wont turn on using the laptops  function key for it (FN + F12). I have tried the latest drivers and older drivers.

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P850. I have the latest drivers for rest of the hardware installed. the WiFi function key does work but seems to have no effect on the WiFi card, even tho the flash cards work, and the Pro-Set software can see the card. In both my Windows 7 and Ubuntu builds (and intel proset software) on the system it says the WiFi is turned off by the hardware switch as said above i don't have one, nor does the function key seem to work with it.

This fourm post on Toshiba's forum outlines what I have tried so far: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=299642#299642 NOTE: I am JMZ10 on that forum.

Before replying please read that post carefully, as I have tried quite a lot of things, checked a lot of things and so on.

I dunno if its much use coming to intel for help but I figure its worth a try, thanks in advance.

Hello I have a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop, running Windows 7 64bit.

This laptop originally had an old Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini Card (wifi g) installed in it and it worked fine.

I decided to upgrade to wifi ac, and thus purchased an Intel Dual Band wireless AC 7260 card.

Intel Product Link

I physically uninstalled the old Dell 1397 WLAN mini card, and replaced it with the new Intel 7260 AC card.

The physical installation of the card was very simple, and i had no issues.

Once I booted into windows I then installed the latest Intel ProSet drivers for the Intel 7260 ac card obtained from the Intel website.

The Intel 7260 drivers installed successfully (according to the Intel installer).

Windows could now properly see the card in device manager, which also reported that the device was working properly.

The new Intel 7260 adapter could also be seen within windows network connections with a status of "enabled"

My laptop's BIOS can also see the card listed as Intel wireless, within the wireless section.

So at first glance it would appear as if everything was fine.. that is until I actually tried to use the card to connect to anything. Upon trying to connect windows will report the following issue in the network troubleshooters advanced details section "Windows couldn't automatically bind the IP protocol stack to the network adapter"

Also when I run the intel ProSet diagnostics application I get the following error under the hardware category "Wireless Hardware is not bound to transport driver". And the ProSet Application cannot see the intel 7260 card (even though it is present in device manager).

I searched online for information on the Proset and Windows network troubleshooter error messages, and found a few forums where people said to try ntsh ip and winsock resets. I tried these resets, yet none of them solved the problem..

Other ideas suggested on various forums was to check to make sure that my WLAN AutoConfig service was running.

I checked and confirmed that it was running and on automatic startup..So that also did not help.

I also tried uninstalling the intel ProSet application and driver package, and then installed the driver only package (without ProSet) and this made no difference, as the same problem persists.

I have also made sure there were no strange entries within the wireless network connection properties.

The only entries listed are the usual ones (Client for microsoft networks, QOS packet scheduler, File printer sharing, TCP IPV6, TCP IPV4,Link layer topology discovery mapper io driver, link layer topology discovery responder)

Having run out of ideas on what to try next, I took out the SSD from my laptop, and installed a spare blank Hard drive.

I then did a fresh virgin installation of Windows 7 64bit, with all of the latest windows updates.

Then I installed the driver only package for the Intel wireless 7260 ac card (no Proset) obtained from the Intel website.

And I was happy to see that the card worked perfectly fine.

So this test on a spare hard drive confirms that the Intel wireless 7260 ac card works, and is compatible with my laptop (no regulatory/white list/ manufacture blocking issues)

Unfortunately I do not have the will or patience to completely re-do my main OS setup with all my programs, settings etc.. on my primary OS on my SSD.

SO back to my issue.. which is how can I get this Intel 7260 ac card working on my main OS and SSD, there must be some fix that to solve the two errors that I reported above.

TL;DR I cannot use my new Intel wireless 7260 ac card to connect to anything, until i fix the problem outlined by the two error messages listed above. I know this card is compatible with my laptop, which i confirmed with a fresh windows install on a separate hard drive.

I would really appreciate someones help with this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Dear ladies and gentleman,

i have a Lenovo Laptop with dual boot Win7 64bit and Win8.1 64bit. I also use the latest driver for WLAN on Win7 & Win8.1. When i connect to my access point where N is enabled, with WIN7 i only get a download speed of appr. 22MBit. When i connect to the access-point with WIN8.1 i get download speed of appr. 50MBit which is my internet speed limit.

So something is wrong with my settings or the drivers in WIN7. When i use an older driver version, my download is appr. 18MBit. The installation of the driver was done with default settings, so no change in advanced wireless settings from the card was done by my.

Do you have any ideas, why this can happen?

Thanks,

regards

Herbert

Hello,

I installed Windows 8 Pro on my Dell Inspiron 5520. I installed the driver for the bluetooth and when I pair my phone with my laptop, the only service it provides is file transfer. Previously, I was with Windows 7 and I could use my laptop's speakers and microphone to make calls from my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) and to play music from the phone.

My guess is that the driver for Windows 8 just does not include these profiles because I tried a usb bluetooth dongle using Broadcom drivers and there is the bluetooth service to play music from my phone on my laptop but does not support the functionality to use my laptop's speakers and microphone to make calls from my phone (it is available on Windows 7).

Is that the problem? If it is, I think that a solution has to be found, as Windows 8 has been released around 2 years ago.

Thank you in advance for your reply.

The problem I'm having is that at random intervals, my laptop stops passing traffic over the wireless interface.  Windows still shows me associated to the access point, but no traffic makes it across the link.  Eventually Windows will show "limited connectivity" on the interface.  I have to disconnect and reconnect to the SSID in order to get things working again.  This is the case on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs.

I just installed an AC7260 card in my laptop, running Windows 8.1 64bit.  I'm now on version 17.0.0.34 of the wireless driver.  I have a 4th-generation Airport Extreme AP, running 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs.  2.4gig is running in b/g/n mode, and on 5gig I've tried a/n and n only modes, with both 20MHz and 40MHz wide channels.  I've verified there are no other APs I can hear on the same channels I'm on.  I have my wireless security set to WPA2-PSK.  I've also tried setting the Airport's multicast rate to both low and medium.

As far as device settings go for the card, I have:

802.11n channel width for 2.4GHz: auto

802.11n channel width for 5.2GHz: auto

ARP offload: enabled

Bluetooth AMP: enabled

Fat channel intolerant: disabled

GTK rekeying: enabled

HT mode: VHT mode

Mixed mode protection: CTS-to-self enabled

NS offload: enabled

Packet coalescing: enabled

Preferred band: No preference

Roaming aggressiveness: medium

Sleep on WoWLAN disconnect: Disabled

Transmit power: highest

Wireless mode: 802.11a/b/g

Hello everyone. I was trying to update my ProSet WiFi software from 16.10.0.0 to 16.11.0.0 on Windows 7 x64 with Centrino N2230. The installer runs with no problem but the ProSet WiFi Utility is nowhere to be found after installation and the Intel Automatic Driver Update still detects my software version as 16.10.0.0. I have tried uninstalling then reinstalling a couple of times but with no luck. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Thank you in advance.

Hi guys

I'm using a Dell latitude with windows 7 and the Intel Proset to manage my wifi connections. This worked fine until a few days a go, I'm using the wifi connection at my work and suddenly I'm unable to enable my wifi using the Intel Proset, it says: "the Wifi radio has been disabled by your IT administrator. It can not be used at this time."

I'm logged in as ,and only, admin on this laptop. Next to that I'm using xampp for some Drupal projects on port 80 and IIS for some asp.net projects maybe that these have something to do with my problem?

Anybody any idea's on how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

Hello.

I have a problem correctly installing and running the adapter.

The installation goes well, and the card functions ok, but when it's in the laptop, it creates problems as such:

1. BIOS is slow. It takes from 2 to 5 seconds to respond on commands (even left or right arrow command).

2. Windows boot screen freezes for 15-20 seconds (no animation at all, then, after 20 sec the 4 lights start moving, and Windows boots).

3. Windows shows transmit speeds incorrectly: instead of 5 MBps - 15-20. (Server laptop is able to operate only up to 5 MB speeds).

Chipset is Intel Cougar Point HM65. BIOS is the last version provided by ACER. Chipset driver is up to date too.

OS is Windows 7 64bit.

I've tested all my hardware (CPU, RAM, HDD, SSD), all of which works fine.

Also I have an Intel 6205 WIFI adapter (native) which works PERFECTLY too. (in this case, - no A,B,C problems described before)

Please help find the solution.