Installing drivers for 3168

[Adrianlllll]

I’ve been trying to install drivers for intel dual band wireless-ac 3168. No matter what I try nothing works. I’ve tried device manager searching for the driver, using the exe, trying a inf (there isn’t any)
A error always occurs and I do not have any drivers installed, I believe this issue also occurred even when I had drivers. What can I do to fix this issue?

[n_scott_pearson]

This is a wireless card that is so old that Intel has discontinued it and is no longer providing interactive support nor hosting driver downloads for it. If you attempt to use the latest available drivers on the Intel site, you will find that it does not work with this card.

All is not lost. I saved away copies of the final driver release packages for most of the discontinued cards in my archive. I currently have a portion of this archive in the cloud and you can download the Wireless and Bluetooth driver packages from there. Use this link: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtacZBU04mo-j-tQ34BdSDv6y1BFsg?e=7gn50T to access my archive. Subfolders provide final driver packages for most of the Discontinued Wireless adapters. In your case, you want the drivers in folder Wireless-AC 3165, 3168, 7265-D.

Hope this helps,

...S

[KennethB_Intel]

Hello Adrianlllll,

Thank you for reaching out to the Intel Community Forum. I understand that you are experiencing issues with the driver installation. To assist you further, I would like to gather more information regarding the issue. Kindly provide answers to the following questions:

• Are you able to connect to the internet?
• Is this a new computer? If so, have you checked with your system's OEM for validated drivers?
• Is the adapter the original one that came pre-installed, or have you changed/installed a new adapter recently?
• Are you only trying to install a specific driver?
• Could you please provide us the SSU logs of your system? You can find instructions on How to get the Intel® System Support Utility Logs on Windows*

I will wait for your response so I can continue assisting you.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Kenneth B.

Intel Customer Support Technician