XP Pro Missing Network Adapter but network still works.

[Luther1978]

On wanting to set a static IP on for my computer on my network I went to change the network connections settings only to find my network adapter had gone Awol, although all network facilities still work.

So I tried to re-install the drivers. No network card found. Network setup wizard can't find a network card to do its stuff either.

Command prompt and ipconfig returns all details correctly: (as below)

Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter {3ADAE7A9-1FB7-4587-A419-6C44CDFCC714}:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : mshome.net
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.152
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1


So I changed network adapters to a 3com one I have lying around. (The first adapter I don't know the make.)

After some prompting XP found the 3com adapter and installed drivers. All network services work again, but still no NIC card, not even device manager shows a network card. Wierd huh?

Anyone know of the solution, or even of the command line commands to set my IP address to a static address?

Rgds

Martin

 

[bcastner]

Start, Run, CMD

regsvr32 netshell.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll

Please advise if after a reboot this does not remedy the missing connections.

 

[Luther1978]

Thanks my friend, I will try that tonight.

 

[Luther1978]

No Luck. Tried the above and re-booted. Even moved the NIC from one PCI slot to another.

Bizarre

 

[bcastner]

Time for: faq779-4625

. Run the WinsockFix utility
. Do the TCP/IP stack repair referenced at the end of the FAQ
. then use the SP2 notes at the bottom of the FAQ to use netsh.exe

Please report back.

 

[Luther1978]

No Luck my friend, when I exported the reg and deleted the stack entries from the registry, I still had no network device. Worse I was left without a network at all. So I imported my registry backups back in. But still no network facilities. Working on re-installing Win xp now :-(

At least now I can where the network device disappeared.

Cheers anyhow.