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September 29th, 2021 09:00
XPS 8930, Windows 11 drivers?
Sorry if I missed this, but is Dell going to release Windows 11 drivers for the XPS 8930.
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Posted September 29th, 2021 12:00
Possibly next week when Windows 11 is launched. This is a user to user forum.
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Posted December 12th, 2021 16:00
Only they didn't. My 8930 updated to Win11 today and the wifi is now dead. I was able to cobble together a wired connection to run diagnostics via Dell and nothing and via Microsoft, and nothing. Even "deleting" the Killer wifi card in Device Manager and rebooting, letting the system rediscover the card, did nothing. So while everything else seems fine, wifi is (at the moment) an epic fail.
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Posted December 15th, 2021 11:00
Hi @bvorka ,
My XPS 8930 updated to Windows 11 and retained the Killer WiFi card drivers and functionality successfully.
Did update to the latest BIOS version 1.1.18, which took a manual hack to achieve, see this post.
Solved: XPS 8930, Windows 11, BIOS 1.1.18 not installing FIXED - Dell CommunityThe killer app is working fine as is WiFi connectivity for the computer.
I am not sure why it is not working for you, but I wanted to give this encouraging feedback, so you know it is possible to achieve.
To help with troubleshooting here are the current Windows 11 System Information specs, with my system and username blanked out for privacy reasons.
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Posted December 15th, 2021 11:00
Sorry, I should have returned to this sooner. The drivers did install but were not set as the default. (I found that solution in another thread.) Once I manually selected the Qualcomm wifi driver rather than the Microsoft default, voila, all was well. Per you illustration above, it's under Device Manager, Properties, Driver.
Not sure why my install defaulted to the wrong driver, but yes, the proper driver did come along for the ride.
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Posted September 29th, 2021 12:00
For that machine, Microsoft will bundle any required 64bit drivers along with Windows-11.
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