Linksys wireless and WSAStartup

[Mark]

After having recovered from a nasty worm in W2000 Pro,
when I go to load the Linksys drivers for wireless
connectivity, I get a "error 10093: Successful WSAStartup
not yet performed.". Then, in order to get the NIC card in
the laptop to work again, I have to run WinFixIP to
straighten out the TCP/IP settings.
I have gone into the registry and removed Winsock and
Winsock2, uninstalled TCP/IP, rebooted, reinstalled
TCP/IP, and had to run WinFixIP again in order to get the
NIC card communicating again.
When I install the Linksys drivers, I get the "10093:"
error again, so am back to where I started.

Linksys says it's a Windows issue.

Running W2000 on an HP Omnibook, trying to install a
previously operable (on this system) a Linksys WPC54G
wireless PCMCIA card.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[jstnorv]

I had the same problem and this fix worked for me. Here is the link t
the message board:
http://tinyurl.com/cxel2
And here is the text:
This could be a Winsock catalog error


I have traced several of these problems to improperly configure
winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to Components/Network/Protocol. Look at th

names in the list, anything with "MSAFD" in it or the "RSVP xxx Servic

Provider" should be fine. Anything else is suspect, and uninstallin
the
owning program might help.


If that fails or your provider list is empty, you may need to rebuil
the
catalog from scratch. The following instructions will rebuild you
catalog
for TCP/IP. If you are using any other transports (If you don't know
then
you probably aren't) then you will have to reinstall them as well.


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. Go to the network connections folder, right click the icon for you

network connection, and select properties.


4. Click install, choose "protocol", and click "add..."


5. Click "Have Disk...", enter "\windows\inf", click OK


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


7. When the process in complete, reboot


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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers n
rights


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jstnor