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Tom Jay

My laptop has been working fine for about a year on a
LinkSys wireless network. All configurations are default
Linksys or Microsoft (DHCP, etc.). Now, all of a sudden,
I can't get an IP address. When I try an "ipconfig" or
a "Ping" in the command shell, I get the message,
"Unable to initialize windows socket interface, error
code 0".

Anyone have any ideas on where I should start?

Thanks
Tom Jay
 
I have traced several of these problems to improperly configured winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to Components/Network/Protocol. Look at the
names in the list, anything with "MSAFD" in it or the "RSVP xxx Service
Provider" should be fine. Anything else is suspect, and uninstalling the
owning program might help.

If that fails or your provider list is empty, you may need to rebuild the
catalog from scratch. The following instructions will rebuild your 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 your
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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I have traced several of these problems to improperly configured winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to
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Components/Network/Protocol. Look at the
names in the list, anything with "MSAFD" in it or the "RSVP xxx Service
Provider" should be fine. Anything else is suspect, and uninstalling the
owning program might help.

If that fails or your provider list is empty, you may need to rebuild the
catalog from scratch. The following instructions will rebuild your 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\Wins ock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wins
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ock2

2. Reboot

3. Go to the network connections folder, right click the icon for your
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 no rights.


Tom Jay said:
My laptop has been working fine for about a year on a
LinkSys wireless network. All configurations are default
Linksys or Microsoft (DHCP, etc.). Now, all of a sudden,
I can't get an IP address. When I try an "ipconfig" or
a "Ping" in the command shell, I get the message,
"Unable to initialize windows socket interface, error
code 0".

Anyone have any ideas on where I should start?

Thanks
Tom Jay
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