Realtek Family Controller Nightmare

[Chipperjoneshof]

So I decided to upgrade my wireless network adapter to wifi-6 technology.  Got Intel adapter and installed successfully.  First boot it worked great.  Drivers installed themselves and it worked awesome.  My download speed was like 500, all was good in the world.  

I reboot the computer and the old Realtek Family Controller driver reinstalled itself.  And it can not find and wireless networks.  

I reset network, uninstalled realtek drivers and reinstalled my new intel drivers, reboot it and still nothing.  I reset network again, nothing.  After 5 reboots it worked.  Wooo.  Not so fast. This was a month ago.  

Now I have to reboot the thing 5 times before I the network adapter works.  I have to do this twice a day.  So I am spending more time rebooting my notebook than I am using it.  HELP ME!!  I am going insane.  My Download speed is so awesome I want this adapter to work.  But Realtek does not, cause they keep reinstalling itself and uninstalling my new drivers.  Why???

I have done everything in the forums I have seen,.  So no need to tell me to check the box to unistall realtek drivers.  Done it.  I can not delete the file in the File Explorer though, says it is being used - try again.  So IDK  Help

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

I expect I will suggest what you have already tried,.....

The Intel part of it, Adapter and Drivers are clear and clean?  

The Realtek drivers are being downloaded from where?  HP / Realtek / Elsewhere?

""I can not delete the file in the File Explorer though, says it is being used - try again.""

If you can see see it you can delete it.  Worst case scenario is Linux Live and delete it that way.

May be ComManD.exe as an Admin in safe mode with NO Network capabilities will delete it (cuz it wont be in use).

If you can give some answers please then I may have more daft ideas.

[Chipperjoneshof]

Thanks, I like your style.  Daft is good.  

[Chipperjoneshof]

Well you were right about deleting the driver. It's a dual boot so went into my ooenSuse and at first Linux saw the windows partition corrupted and wouldn't let me delete files.  I fixed it and deleted the Realtek drivers. I then rebooted and it found wifi. I shut down and rebooted 5 times and every time it worked. I thought I fixed it!!  

Nope..  of course the next morning I bott it it and no networks found. .  My new wifi adaptor not in device manager .  Back to square one. 

[Chipperjoneshof]

I still need help. this is ridiculous.  To answer some of your questions. The Realtek drivers were factory. The Intel drivers I got from Intel's site. 

I am just confused at this point. I nuked the Realtek side of it. But now it seems to just be losing the new adapter after it's shut down for a while.   Help. 

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

Since you also favour OpenSuse...................

Make sure the W10 does not have Fast Start Up enabled.

Now daft ideas, since you didn't say where the download is coming from then this bit is a long shot...

RE -  Search something like this...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/approve-or-decline-wsus-updates-by-using-powershell/

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/76207-update-upgrade-windows-10-using-powershell.html#Part3

ELSE

Don't forget C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts        file.

# [Doubleclick (Google)]
127.0.0.1 ad-g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.mo.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 tpc.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 api.taboola.com

#HP
127.0.0.1 ca1.qualtrics.com
127.0.0.1 *.qualtrics.com
127.0.0.1 siteintercept.qualtrics.com

Map the download site to loopback

127.0.0.1        driverguide.com           stops/blocks/negates that site.

[Chipperjoneshof]

Are you asking where the Realtek drivers come from originally?  They are factory, and once I delete them they do stay in drivers folder.  But now I have wiped them from the Linux parition and they seem to be gone.  However, it is not stopping the system from thing the controller is still in the slot, even without the drivers it seems. 

I did go into bios and Fast Boot was disabled already. But I did disable secure boot and enable legacy boot??  We shall see.  Going to go into PowerShell now and explore Update Config etc.  

Thanks so much for your help.  This is driving me bonkers.  

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

The partition thing is

Dirty Bit Set

Even Gparted struggles.

[Chipperjoneshof]

Still  no joy.  So frustrated.  Brand new Laptop and have to spend first 10 minutes of everyday rebooting the thing 5 +time to get wifi. The Realtek Device just keeps coming back like that wonderful virus we wont name (not talking about a computer virus ;()  So whats next?  Throw the thing out the window? 

The factory Realtek drivers do NOT reinstall themself, they are gone, but the system still thins the device is there.  Have done everything.  What is this about Dirty Bit set?  Not familiar with it?  

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

The Fast Start Up puts the the partition into "suspend" mode, and if you are lucky it is read only.

So mounting in OpenSuSE is pointless until the 'dirty bit' is reset.

Overly long explanation

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/manually-reset-or-clear-dirty-bit-in-windows-without-chkdsk/2/

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I dont want to try and teach granny to suck eggs, so some of what I post may seem patronising...

   Show Hidden Devices ???

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Copy and Paste into Notepad,
Save as A2Z.bat
Double click to run.

@Echo THIS MAY HELP TO REPAIR / RECTIFY,
@ECHO VERY, SIMPLE NETWORK DIFFICULTIES.
@ECHO WIRED AND WIRELESS CONFIGURATIONS.
@ECHO THE RESULTS WILL VARY ACCORDING TO
@ECHO YOUR CONFIGURATION AND USER LEVEL.
@ECHO A RE-BOOT MUST BE DONE AFTER DOING
@ECHO SOME OF THE CHECKS OPTIONED BELOW.
@ECHO....................................
:MENU
@ECHO TYPE IN YOUR PREFERRED MENU CHOICE
@ECHO....................................
@ECHO.
@ECHO A - PING_LO Ping test to 127.0.0.1
@ECHO B - PING_TO Pinging out to 8.8.8.8
@ECHO C - GET_IFS Display each Interface
@ECHO D - DNSFLSH Flush out DNS Register
@ECHO E - DNS_REG Register new DNS value
@ECHO F - IPvFOUR Reset to remove errors
@ECHO G - IP_RNEW Force/Renew IP address
@ECHO H - IPv_SIX Reset to remove errors
@ECHO I - NB_STAT NETBIOS -Renew -Repair
@ECHO J - DIS_HEU Disable TCP Heuristics
@ECHO K - SH_ETH0 Display ETH0 interface
@ECHO L - DR_WLAN Drivers WLAN interface
@ECHO M - SH_WLAN Display WLAN interface
@ECHO N - NS_LKUP Shows your Name Server
@ECHO O - GET_MAC Obtain MAC address(es)
@ECHO P - GTMAC-A Create address(es)-TXT
@ECHO Q - IP_CONF Display Network Config
@ECHO R - IPCNF-A All Network Config-TXT
@ECHO S - SYS_SUM System Summary Display
@ECHO T - INFO_32 Shows MSINFO32 Screens
@ECHO U - NETSTAT All Network Statistics
@ECHO V - NSTAT-A Show Network Stats-TXT
@ECHO W - WINSOCK Reset to remove errors
@ECHO X - PROFILE Displays SSID listings
@ECHO Y - WIFIKEY Displays as clear text
@ECHO Z - FINISHD Close this Command Box
@ECHO ...................................
@ECHO OFF
COLOR B1
SET /P M= SET /P M= Choose from A-Z, then press ENTER:

IF /I %M%==A GOTO PING_LO
IF /I %M%==B GOTO PING_TO
IF /I %M%==C GOTO GET_IFS
IF /I %M%==D GOTO DNSFLSH
IF /I %M%==E GOTO DNS_REG
IF /I %M%==F GOTO IPvFOUR
IF /I %M%==G GOTO IP_RNEW
IF /I %M%==H GOTO IPv_SIX
IF /I %M%==I GOTO NB_STAT
IF /I %M%==J GOTO DIS_HEU
IF /I %M%==K GOTO SH_ETH0
IF /I %M%==L GOTO DR_WLAN
IF /I %M%==M GOTO SH_WLAN
IF /I %M%==N GOTO NS_LKUP
IF /I %M%==O GOTO GET_MAC
IF /I %M%==P GOTO GTMAC-A
IF /I %M%==Q GOTO IP_CONF
IF /I %M%==R GOTO IPCNF-A
IF /I %M%==S GOTO SYS_SUM
IF /I %M%==T GOTO INFO_32
IF /I %M%==U GOTO NETSTAT
IF /I %M%==V GOTO NSTAT-A
IF /I %M%==W GOTO WINSOCK
IF /I %M%==X GOTO PROFILE
IF /I %M%==Y GOTO WIFIKEY
IF /I %M%==Z GOTO FINISHD

:PING_LO
ping LOOPBACK
echo.
GOTO MENU

:PING_TO
ping 13.107.4.52
echo.
GOTO MENU

:GET_IFS
netsh interface ip show interface
echo.
GOTO MENU

:DNSFLSH
ipconfig /flushdns
echo.
GOTO MENU

:DNS_REG
ipconfig /registerdns
echo.
GOTO MENU

:IPvFOUR
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
echo.
GOTO MENU

:IP_RNEW
ipconfig /release
pause
ipconfig /renew
echo.
GOTO MENU

:IPv_SIX
netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log
echo.
GOTO MENU

:NB_STAT
nbtstat -RR
echo.
GOTO MENU

:DIS_HEU
netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled
echo.
GOTO MENU

:SH_ETH0
netsh lan show interfaces | more /c
echo.
GOTO MENU

:DR_WLAN
netsh wlan show drivers | more /c
echo.
GOTO MENU

:SH_WLAN
netsh wlan show interfaces | more /c
echo.
GOTO MENU

:NS_LKUP
nslookup /ns
echo.
GOTO MENU

:GET_MAC
getmac | more /c
echo.
GOTO MENU

:GTMAC-A
getmac >> c:\GM.txt
Notepad c:\GM.txt
echo.
GOTO MENU

:IP_CONF
ipconfig -all
echo.
GOTO MENU

:IPCNF-A
ipconfig -all >> C:\IP.txt
Notepad C:\IP.txt
echo.
GOTO MENU

:SYS_SUM
systeminfo
echo.
GOTO MENU

:INFO_32
msinfo32
echo.
GOTO MENU

:NETSTAT
netstat -e -r -s | more /c
echo.
GOTO MENU

:NSTAT-A
netstat -e -r -s >> NetStat.txt
Notepad NetStat.txt
echo.
GOTO MENU

:WINSOCK
netsh winsock reset catalog
echo.
GOTO MENU

:PROFILE
netsh wlan show profiles
echo.
@ECHO PLEASE NOTE any NETWORK-SSID name(s)
@ECHO that you want the PASSPHRASE(S) for.
echo.
GOTO MENU

:WIFIKEY
set /p wkey=Please type in the SSID
Please type in the SSID
netsh wlan show profile name=%wkey% key=clear
echo.
GOTO MENU

:FINISHD
EXIT

  Is what it looks like.

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