Question WifiInfoView was unable to see wifi adapters, but VM can ?

[lantis3]

The software https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wifi_information_view.html

This is not that serious but absolutely weird.

Just got a new mini pc for a week. Today I use the pc and software to scan nearby wifi ssid, but the scanner software told me it couldn't find any wifi adapters,

But I actually have 3 adapters. Internal PCIe Mediatek RZ616, USB TPLINK T4U and T3U Plus. Drivers installed and working fine,

However I was able to connect the T4U and the T3U plus in the VM and run the same scanner software and both were able to scan and show nearby SSIDs.

How is this possible? Re-install Windows did not help.

 

[Ralston18]

What Windows version?

What VM?

 

[lantis3]

Windows 10. Downgrade from 11.

VMware workstation 15.5

Have run the same software for many years and never once it could not find installed wifi adapters on the host machine.

Host Win10 machine

Guest Win10 VM

 

[lantis3]

My bad.

I have to press F9 or go to Options, Advanced Options and choose an adapter.

 

[Ralston18]

Try using Powershell to delve more into the network adapters etc.

FYI:

https://www.powershellengineer.com/p/21-one-line-powershell-networking

https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-ip-configuration/

Just use Get cmdlets to look for differences by comparing "working" to "not-working" configurations.

Run as Admin,

Do not try to do everything at once - just explore through the cmdlets and get a sense of the information provided.

Then go back and take a closer look at it all.

Printing results is often very handy for making comparisons.