Help with the TCP Stack

[Alison]

I recently moved into a house with four other girls, and
we decided to get wireless internet to cut down on costs.
However, my wireless won't work, and I called the company
that makes the wireless cards, and they said my TCP stack
is corrupted. How do I fix this? Can I fix this? PLEASE
HELP!!!
-Alison

 

[Fred Marshall]

I recently moved into a house with four other girls, and
we decided to get wireless internet to cut down on costs.
However, my wireless won't work, and I called the company
that makes the wireless cards, and they said my TCP stack
is corrupted. How do I fix this? Can I fix this? PLEASE
HELP!!!
-Alison

You didn't say which operating system, so I'll try to give you the idea.

First thing to try (remove / reinstall TCP/IP protocol:
Go to Control Panel / Networking / and go down the list until you find
TCP/IP associated with the wireless adapter or card you're using. Something
like D-Link or Linksys or ... Wireless TCP/IP.
Highlight this entry in the list.
Select Properties

Write down what you see for everything in all the windows you can select
including such things as "get address automatically" or the IP address,
subnet mask and gateway.
Same thing for DNS. Just capture as much information as possible.

Now, go back to the Networking list of protocols and devices.
Remove the TCP/IP association with the wireless card and any other
associations of TCP/IP - keeping track of the ones you delete.
Now remove the TCP/IP protocol from the list.
Reboot.

Go back to Control Panel / Networking
Install Protocol TCP/IP.

If this doesn't work, download and try using the LSP-Fix program if it seems
applicable:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Fred

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I recently moved into a house with four other girls, and
we decided to get wireless internet to cut down on costs.
However, my wireless won't work, and I called the company
that makes the wireless cards, and they said my TCP stack
is corrupted. How do I fix this? Can I fix this? PLEASE
HELP!!!
-Alison

If the TCP/IP stack is corrupted on a Windows XP computer, this should
fix it:

1. Backup and delete the following registry keys:

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

2. Reboot

3. Open the network connections folder, right click your network
connection, and click Properties.

4. Click Install | Protocol | Add.

5. Click "Have Disk...", type "\windows\inf" in the box, and click
OK.

6. Click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", then click OK.

7. Reboot.

For details, see:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811259
How to determine and recover from Winsock2 corruption
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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