I disabled my Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport network adapter from Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections.
Just right clicked on the miniport nic and clicked disable, and its gone. Now how could I enable it?
After disabling the nic, netsh wlan start hostednetwork is not working any more. The response is,
The hosted network couldn't be started.
The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
It was working flawlessly, before I disabled the adapter,
Anyway, for reference here is the output of
netsh wlan show drivers,
Interface name: Wi-Fi
Driver : Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
Vendor : Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.
Provider : Microsoft
Date : 7/3/2012
Version : 3.0.0.130
INF file : C:\Windows\INF\netathrx.inf
Files : 2 total
C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\athrx.sys
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\vwifibus.sys
Type : Native Wi-Fi Driver
Radio types supported : 802.11b 802.11g 802.11n
FIPS 140-2 mode supported : Yes
802.11w Management Frame Protection supported : Yes
Hosted network supported : Yes
Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
WPA-Enterprise TKIP
WPA-Personal TKIP
WPA2-Enterprise TKIP
WPA2-Personal TKIP
Vendor defined TKIP
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
WPA-Enterprise CCMP
WPA-Personal CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise CCMP
Vendor defined CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
WPA2-Personal CCMP
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Authentication and cipher supported in ad-hoc mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
WPA2-Personal CCMP
Vendor defined Vendor defined
netsh wlan show hostednetwork,
Hosted network settings
Mode : Allowed
SSID name : "aczire"
Max number of clients : 100
Authentication : WPA2-Personal
Cipher : CCMP
Hosted network status
Status : Not available
After executing,
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow
The hosted network mode has been set to allow.
But again in,
netsh wlan show hostednetwork
Hosted network settings
Mode : Allowed
SSID name : "aczire"
Max number of clients : 100
Authentication : WPA2-Personal
Cipher : CCMP
Hosted network status
Status : Not available
netsh wlan show settings
Wireless LAN settings
Show blocked networks in visible network list: No
Only use GP profiles on GP-configured networks: No
Hosted network mode allowed in WLAN service: Yes
Allow shared user credentials for network authentication: Yes
Block period: Not Configured.
Auto configuration logic is enabled on interface "Wi-Fi"
Any idea how to re-enable the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport adapter (in Windows 8 Pro RTM)?
I’m at my wits end, Please help 🙁
You go to your “device manager”, find your “network adapters”, then should find the virtual wifi adapter, then right click it and enable it. After that, you start your cmd with admin privileges, then try: