microsoft virtual miniport adapter shows as not connected

As I said originally, at the moment the miniport is disabled and won't allow me to enable it, hence when I try to start up the virtual wifi I get an error that it isn't in the correct state (which is true). Unfortnately it's not quite what I need - I know how to set up the network itself from the windows side, but the issue is with the drivers underneath I think. Whilst the wifi and LAN network connections are now back and working, having the virtual Wifi hotspot capability is handy when travelling and I want to hook up multiple devices to one hotel wifi connection. If anyone has experience or knowledge of how to solve this and get things back to how they were I'd be most appreciative. And if I try and then update the driver for the miniport on the internet, it does find a new driver but one that is not signed (and even if that is installed, the adapter still won't ungrey and enable under the network centre list).Īll I want is things back to how they were originally with all the virtual wifi hotspot capability. I also tried to remove (including delete) them and reinstall fresh under safe mode, but it didn't help re-enable the miniport. However since the reinstallation that miniport is listed as grey and disabled, and when I try to enable it it says 'enabling.' then 'enabled', but the icon just stays grey and lists up as disabled still.

In the original installation that was enabled and available, and I could use it to set up a virtual hotspot and mini wifi network using the Aspire One as the router linked into my normal network. That worked and got me my internet access back, but unfortunately it has left a problem behind on my Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport. I had a problem earlier on my Acer Aspire One AO722-C52kk (Win7 Home Prem 64bit) with the wireless, and to try and solve it I uninstalled and reinstalled the Atheros and Broadcom drivers (using the ones both from the eRecovery Management app and also from the Acer UK website).

Microsoft virtual miniport adapter shows as not connected