First of all, thank you for getting back to me on this issue. This is the first concrete resolution I have seen in a week dealing with is post.

When I open my Network adapter I see the following listing:

Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller.

Broadcom Virtual Wireless Adapter

DW1501 Wireless-NWLAN Half mini Card

Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport adapter

Teredo Tunneling Pseudo Inertface.

For clarity, am I to understand that to go ahead and download theW10 update and then go back to the Deice manager and uninstall the Broadcom Virtual wireless adap? thanks again. I certainly appreciate your thoughts.

Good Morning and Thanks again for assistance and patience.

This update is being applied to Dell N4010 with M460. Currently, it is running W7 SP1 Home Prem.

at the moment the Broadcom Virtual wireless is the default and therefore, operating. So I am going to DISABLE this driver and ENABLE the drivers for DW1501. Is that correct?

Hello,

Thanks again for your feedback.

I just need to clarify before I execute this change. I really want to move to W10 because it appears to be more stable and most certainly. very dynamic, I have W10 running on another upgrade from W8.1 to W10. and it is operating flawlessly so far. Very stable vs W8.1.

In the device manger under properties for BROADCOM Virtual I see the following 5 boxes:

Driver Details

Update Driver

Roll back Driver

Disable

Uninstall

Broadcom is the device currently in use as previously stated. When I look at the properties for the MS virtual WiFi miniport adapter is see the following 5 boxes:

Driver details

Update driver

Rollback driver

Enable= which enable this device

Uninstall the driver.

So I need to be clear with respect to the Broadcom settings do I DISABLE or Uninstall? When you say remove I am thinking UNINSTALL.

Now with respect to setting up the MS virtual WiFi adapter am I to understand that I need to ENABLE this device?

Thanks so much for your help and patience.

Thank you very much for the explanation. I removed the device (but not the driver) and the laptop is working well. I have an Inspiron 5520.

Best regards,.

Hi,

How did you remove the device, I assume you removed Broadcom virtual wireless adapter, with out removing thedrivers? Thank you.

Hi.

Yes, I removed the adapter without removing the driver. (I left the box empty in the Confirm dialogue).

Greetings.-

Hi.

Yes, I followed the steps that ksproboszcz wrote:

"Go to Control Panel, Device Manager, Network adapters and click the small left arrow: you should see a few  items, including Broadcom 802.11 network adapter and Broadcom Virtual WIFI adapter.

Do NOT delete the 802.11 adapter, since it is the driver that controls you wifi card. But you can safely delete any VIRTUAL adapter."

Then I right click over the Broadcom, and uninstall it.

Greetings.-

Did you remove this device in the device manager? I am still trying to determine where to remove this if it not from the device manager properties. Thanks for help.

Hi,

Ok thanks again for your info. I followed your instructions and uninstalled Broadcom but left the driver. Once that has been completed which way did you install W10? any issues? thank you.

Hi.

I will wait until sunday to install Windows 10. Hope no issues with the upgrade.

Greetings.-

Good Morning,

Went thru the advised steps to download W10 and all is good. Some minor glitches that I will need to  resolve. But so far the system is running well. Thank you for your patience and assistance.

Best wishes.

I have the same problem updating to Windows 10.  In the Device Manager on my machine under Network Adapters I see:

Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)

Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI)

Broadcom Virtual Wireless Adapter

DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card

Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter

I do not see a Broadcom 802.11 network adapter

I do not want to delete the wrong item on my machine.  Please help as to what I should delete and what I should keep.

Thank you

ok well what I did to resolve this issue was to Remove the Broadcom Virtual adapter but DO NOT UNINSTALL THE DRIVER because it is needed to run the wireless. You will see in the Broadcom dialog box once you uninstall the Broadcom it will ask you if want to remove the Driver. DO NOT REMOVE or check this box. Then go to MS and to the Media center to upgrade to W10. Good luck. 

Correction:: go to MS Media creation tool and upgrade this PC.

Hello. I am also having the same trouble with this. I have a Dell Inspiron 2305, and when I clicked on the left arrow, I got this:

Broadcom Virtual Wireless Adapter

DW1501Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card

Microsoft 6to4 Adapter

Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2

Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

What should I do from here?