Sunday, August 9, 2015

I recently updated my MacBook Pro Boot Camp from Windows 7 64 bit to Windows 10 Pro and encountered issues of network connection as well as wireless WIFI connection. I go to the device manager and check the Network adapters section and see only Broadcom 802.11n Network and it says it is working.  However, Windows doesn't detect the wireless WIFI signal and populate in the network connect at the launch pad.  Also, when I connect the Ethernet cable to my MacBook Pro, I cannot go to the internet either because there is no driver in the Network Adapters.  Following are the steps I did to get everything to work.  I hope it will help you as well. At the time of this blog, there is no Boot Camp for Windows 10 yet.

1. Log into your Mac OS and click on the Apple Icon at top left corner and select "About This Mac"

2. Write down the text within the ( and ). For example, MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012). Write down "Retina, Mid 2012"

3. Go to www.123myit.com and clik on "MAC" and select the type of MacBook type you have

4. Scroll down and select the correct MacBook Boot Camp Drivers matching the name you wrote down in step 2 above as well as the Windows Version and either 32 bit or 64 bit.

5. Once download is completed, copy it to a memory thumb or a folder.

6. Shut down your Mac OS and boot into Windows 10

7. Go to your device manager and un-install the Broadcom 802.11n in Network Adapter

8. Close all opened Windows and go to the memory thumb or folder that you store the Boot Camp Driver above.

9. Create a folder in your memory thumb or in Windows and copy it there and unzip it there.

10. Go to the folder and navigate to Boot Camp and run setup.exe. This will install some of the drivers including your graphic driver. It will stop when it says it requires Windows 7 to continue.

11. At this point, it should install your network adapter, for example Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet. If you connect Ethernet cable to Mac, you should be able to connect to the internet now.

12. Go to the folder that you unzip the Boot Camp driver and go to driver/Broadcom folder and run the Broadcomwireless corresponding to your previous Windows OS. Once that exe is completed, you should see Windows populates the available WIFI in your network icon in the launch pad.  If you open it, you should see all available WIFI. Select it and enter your SSID and you are connected. If you go to device manager and expand Network Adapter, you will see that the Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter is added.

13. You may also run other exe programs in any other folder under BootCamp/Drivers as well if you find that a particular feature is working.