Hi Robert P

I did tried that driver 1704/1708 but very hopeless.

Let me explain to you by details of what happens.

I have windows 10 on my laptop Dell Inspiron 3542 and everything works fine and charmingly. Untill within this week do the "check update" in Microsoft Windows, then it downloaded MIcrosoft Update 1709, which is also known as Windows 10 Fall Creator Update.

After update, everything works fine except Dell wireless 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz. If I go to Device Manager, it shows no "X", nor it shows any complain about this driver. So, assumingly the new Windows 10 Fall Creator Update does see this Dell Wireless hardware. But when I scanned "Trouble-Shooting" for internet then it reported back that I can only connect to Network Card (or Network Cable) and cannot fix the WiFi.

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When I go to "Network & Internet Settings" on the Wifi. Once I clicked on WiFi button, It stayed "ON" 1 or 2 seconds then bounced back to "OFF" like a "Circuit Breaker" or the "Short Circuit Switch".

If I go to "Network" icon on the right-bottom of the screen for Internet, then there are 2 things happen:

(1) Without network cable connected for Internet, then my Wifi button, Airplane Mode  button, and Mobile hotspot button display "dim" (means inactive or disable I guess)

(2) With network cable connected for Internet, then Airplane Mode button is dim, WiFi button stay dim, whereas the "Mobile hotspot" button stay "bright" (means active or enable). When I click on this" Mobile hotspot" button then it displayed names of WiFi connections in around area for 1 or 2 seconds then bounced back to OFF state like a Circuit Breaker. But after that the WiFi button alternately stay "bright"whereas the Mobile hotspot alternately stayed OFF. If I hit the WiFi button, then I can see a few names of Wifi Connections around the area for 1 or 2 seconds then disappeared and  it bounced to OFF state like a Circuit Breaker. Conclusively the WiFi button and the Mobile Hotspot button just stays ON/OFF alternately whichever you press.

I even tried update to latest BIOS A12 for my laptop, then I tried Airplane Mode driver provided by Dell but so useless. I tried update to uninstall and reinstall to very latest driver for wireless wifi of Dell released 1705, 1704/1708...  but no avail. I even tried REALTEK 802.11 and Broadcom 802.11 with hope but come to no where.

This is the problem of Windows 10 Update bugs rather than Dell Driver bugs, But I don't know how long MIcrosoft will release this new patch. If it was Dell Driver bugs, then It must shows "X" in Device Manager, right?