Windows 2000 Socket

[roadman10]

I have one wireless and one hard wired desktop. The hard wired desktop is running Windows 2000. I can run the wireless on the net, but not the hard wired computer.

Here is some more information. I've already put in a new wireless card instead of the motherboard one that came with the computer.

I didn't see any numbers with the window socket error. Here is what I just currently did in command prompt.

ipconfig /all

Node Type: Broadcast

IP routing enabled: No
WINS Proxy enabled: No


Ethernet Adapter

Phyical Address; 00-080-A1-88-C7-EA

DHCP Enabled- Yes
Autoconfig Enabled- Yes

Autoconfiguration

IP Address: 169.254.161. 63(I heard this should be around 192)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

ipconfig /release message

All adapter bound to DHCP do not have DHCP addresses. The addresses were automatically configure and cannot be released.

ipconfig /renew message

The followin error ocurred when renewing adapter Local Area Connection; An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.


I found this solution in the FAQ here, but it's for Windows XP. Will this work for Windows 2000. I've already had someone tell me my winsock2 is corrupte.

Thank you for your time.

Problem: You have a PC that can ping nodes on the local network but can not surf the web. You have checked your browsers settings and security and have set them back to default but the problem persists, you have also uninstall the network adapter and reintalled it but still no comm. After all this you even downloaded all your browsers libraries [this is another FAQ Q&A] and re-installed and nothing.

Solution: Go to Run > regedit > and delete the following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2

Restart the computer
Go to Network Connections
Right click and select Properties
Click on the Install button
Select Protocol
Click on the Add button
Click on the Have Disk button
Go to the \Windows\inf directory
Select anything there and click Open
Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Click on the OK button
Check to see if your network adapter obtained a new IP lease and if not...
Reboot

 

[Serbtastic]

The fact that your IP address is 169.254.x.x means that you are unable to connect to the DHCP server to obtain a valid IP address. Are you using a home router? Post an 'ipconfig /all' output from the wireless machine for comparison.

 

[roadman10]

Thank you for the response Serbtastic.

Yes, I'm running a D Link router.

Here is the ipconfig /all from the wireless machine.

DHCP Enabled- No
IP Address- 3.0.0.2
SUbnet Mask- 255.255.255

Ethernet Adapter

Physical Address: 00-11-95-8C-F4-93
DHCP Enabled- Yes
IP Address- 192.168.0.102
Subnet Mask- 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway- 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server- 192.169.0.1.

Thank you for responding. Let me know if you need anything else.

 

[Serbtastic]

Here's Microsoft's take on it:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318584

 

[roadman10]

Thank you again.

I looked over all the steps and they seem pretty clear cut.

The only steps I'm concerned with is locating the Nettcpip.inf in winroot\inf. I've tried to do a file/folder search and my system said cannot find.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thank you.

 

[pansophic]

winroot\inf means C:\Windows\INF if you did a default installation.


pansophic