Can't Connect to Wi-Fi After Restart

ifoughtamudcrab

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Hello!
The wi-fi on my computer was working perfectly fine a few days ago, but now I turn it on and it isn't working. I have a TP-Link TL-WDN4800. When I open the TP-Link software all options are 'greyed out' so I can't click on anything, incluiding options to connect, but it does list my wireless card. When I restarted the computer and took out the card, however, it didn't recognize the card, so it is at least being recognized by the computer. In device manager under "Network Adapters" "Qualcomm Atheros AR938x Wireless Network Adapter" is listed, which I believe is the adapter, though there is nothing listed TP-Link (there may have been in the past I am unsure). I have no wi-fi options in Windows 10 itself and I have tried uninstalling and re-installing drivers from the disk.

One note is that I built the PC to use Windows 7 and upgraded to 10, but it worked perfectly fine for months after the upgraded and only yesterday had this problem. Sometimes on boot the green status light on the card is "on" and sometimes its not, this seems to vary depending on my messing around with drivers but it never works, even when its on.

Thanks, I appreciate any and all help!
 

ifoughtamudcrab

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I don't see airplane mode anywhere. As near as I can tell it should be an option in the "Network and Internet" menu, but the first option there is "Data Usage". Both "Airplane Mode" and "Wi-Fi" are missing.

Running troubleshooter comes up with "There might be a problem with the driver for the Wi-Fi adapter: Windows couldn't automatically bind the IP protocol stack to the network adapter"
 

ifoughtamudcrab

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Yes, I know how it is supposed to work. My point is that I don't have either the "Wi-Fi" or "Airplane Mode" options listed. The menu starts at "Data Usage".
 

ifoughtamudcrab

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I also had "Network Stack" disabled and enabled it. However, it didn't seem to change anything. Thanks for trying, though!