XP wireless problem

[Alan]

Any ideas? Having great problems getting one PC going with
a wireless USB Linksys network adaptor. Have tried all of
the obvious to death. By assigning it a fixed IP I can now
ping the router and ping this rogue PC from other PCs on
the network but this bad PC will not connect to the
internet. All firewalls have been removed from the bad PC.
The strange thing that I would welcome any thoughts on is
that although I can ping the router and other PCs from
this bad PC I cannot tracert (traceroute) from the bad PC
to the router- comes back with something like "1 2ms 2ms
no resources". Now why would it be poss to ping but not
trace route as I thought they both use ICMP echo packet??

The set up is XP SP1 using the linksys WUSB adaptor to a
Linksys wirless router to NTL ADSL cable modem. All
working fine elsehwhere including with same WUSB device on
another XP machine. On this machine though it wont get an
IP from DHCP and so having to set static (192.168.1.155
and router is 192.168.1.1). One small thing that troubles
me is that although I have unintstalled several times,
when I re-install, it then says Wirless connection#7 etc,
incrementing each time. Also on the other machine
installed using the same install disk, it seems possible
to set the Authentication even though WEP is disabled
(which it is) but not on this one??? Bizarre but if anyone
knows what would cause a ping to work to the router from
this rouge PC but not a trace route then I would be
interested. IPconfig and route print all look good.
Many thanks
tks
Alan

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Any ideas? Having great problems getting one PC going with
a wireless USB Linksys network adaptor. Have tried all of
the obvious to death. By assigning it a fixed IP I can now
ping the router and ping this rogue PC from other PCs on
the network but this bad PC will not connect to the
internet. All firewalls have been removed from the bad PC.
The strange thing that I would welcome any thoughts on is
that although I can ping the router and other PCs from
this bad PC I cannot tracert (traceroute) from the bad PC
to the router- comes back with something like "1 2ms 2ms
no resources". Now why would it be poss to ping but not
trace route as I thought they both use ICMP echo packet??

The set up is XP SP1 using the linksys WUSB adaptor to a
Linksys wirless router to NTL ADSL cable modem. All
working fine elsehwhere including with same WUSB device on
another XP machine. On this machine though it wont get an
IP from DHCP and so having to set static (192.168.1.155
and router is 192.168.1.1). ...

Alan,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Alan]

Hans-Georg

many many thanks for your excellent page and all of the
replies here. I am now seeing that many people are
suffering from this winsock corruption and as soon as I
can get back to my bad PC I will try the fix. Just one
question though if I may, I have SP1 and would you
recommend trying to do the fix by either using LSPfix or
winsockfix(is that a standalone programe) or by the
registry delete entries and re-installing of the IP as
recommended by microsoft. I wonder which is the safest
and most fool proof! Many thanks

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

many many thanks for your excellent page and all of the
replies here. I am now seeing that many people are
suffering from this winsock corruption and as soon as I
can get back to my bad PC I will try the fix. Just one
question though if I may, I have SP1 and would you
recommend trying to do the fix by either using LSPfix or
winsockfix(is that a standalone programe) or by the
registry delete entries and re-installing of the IP as
recommended by microsoft. I wonder which is the safest
and most fool proof! Many thanks

Alan,

you're welcome. The best thank-you note is to let me know
whether it actually worked and what the symptoms were.

I cannot answer your question because I don't know these
programs. From what I read in the newsgroups, WinSockFix seems
to work quite well. I could imagine that the program does a
little more to set things straight, but I don't really know
anything.

Since the Microsoft method is clear and all actions are visible,
I personally would probably use it.

All in all I guess it doesn't matter much which method you use.
The more important points may be to also remove the spyware that
caused the problem in the first place and to protect your
computer, so you don't get more of the same.

Actually, installing Service Pack 2 may not be a bad idea. With
it you get the simplest method through that new command.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

Thanks- I will post here later in the week when I get back
to that PC - certainly the symptoms of not seeing DHCP
aasigment and even when going back to cable netword card
finding that is messed up and the only cure is going back
to an old restore point, plus wehn I do an inconfig /renew
I can get amessage something like trying to perform an
operation on something that is not a socket etc etc looks
like this winsock prob. I will double check no third
party software and run Hijack this and do adware/spybot
etc.

Grateful for your support on this forum have a good day