Anyone encountered Intel 'Killer' Wi-Fi driver problem

[Tex Williams]

Laptop: MSI GE75 Raider 10SFS-018

When downloading Killer wireless lan driver or which ever for wireless the install almost completes, the Dev mgmgt list updates and looks fixed for a split sec but then rolls back.. unable to get this part working at all, Ethernet works but not wifi
Wireless Network Adapter
"Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware.
(Code 37)
The request is not supported.


Ive tried what little I know, uninstalled driver then reinstalled. Tried the work around for the store to get Killer control suite and so on.
I have the un-molested Windows10 usb recovery driver and w/ 7zip opened some .wim's and robbed all the driver's out of there to see if they'd help and still nothing. Any suggestions?

 

[garlin]

From the Device Manager's view, you're missing (or failed to install) the Intel AX201 Wi-Fi driver. As a new visitor, I don't know how much NTLite experience you have. But here's the correct way to install drivers:

1. Download the Wi-Fi driver file from MSI. Unzip the file.
2. Load your install image.
3. From NTLite's Drivers screen, add the extracted folder to import all driver files.
4. Apply and create/update your image.

The only drawback is importing the entire folder will include other Intel Wi-Fi drivers beside your laptop's specific model.

You can try installing it one time with all drivers, and then looking up the actual *.INF filename of the loaded driver. With the specific driver *.INF, now you can search the extracted folder for a specific subfolder to import.

 

[Tex Williams]

Yes, super resource hogging software that typically isnt even nesc. On your host PC which your using NTLite on, drag all the drivers elated to networking into it from your machine with the killer network software into the new install.wim

Worked for me on my MSI laptop, took a while to figure out though.

 

[garlin]

NTLite allows you to import the 3rd-party drivers from the current host, but it's not always the case you're on the same PC. For that reason, we normally instruct users to extract from the OEM's installer.

Importing only transfers whatever files are specified by the driver's INF file. Any "bloatware" like tools won't be copied, unless they're listed in the INF, and those tools are primarily installed by running the vendor's driver setup tool.