Not a socket: network no longer connects

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Lance Albertson

I have had this problem before and fixed it by
reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows. I
don't want to do that (because I won't have time to do it
till next week at the earliest).

I have a networked computer, Linksys wireless for this
particular computer. My wife turned it on yesterday and
the network is gone. Not completely gone, but mostly
gone.

First thing is it doesn't pick up the DHCP server, so I
get a 169.xxx.xxx.xxx address.

Second, I try to get around this by putting in a specific
IP address and DNS server. This allows me to see other
computers on the network, but does not allow me to see
the internet.

I then remove the IP address and go back to the
169.xxx.xxx.xxx address.

Now I go to the command prompt and do
an "ipconfig /renew". This fails with the message: "No
operation can be performed on Local Area Connection
whiole it has its media disconnected. An error occurred
while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection 2 :
An operation was attempted on something that is not a
socket."

Anyone know what this means? More importantly, what can
I do to fix it?

Other computers on the home netword (like the one I'm
using here) have no problems connecting, so it appears to
be the computer, not the Linksys DHCP server (a cable
router, if that's important).
 
Exactly the same problem as I have, but havn't found an
answer yet..my post is below labeled "no default
gatewway" i found the event when the problem started and
it says "Your computer was not able to renew its address
from the network(from the DHCP SErver)for the network
card.....The following error occured: An operation was
attempted on something that is not a socket. ....
I hope someone has an answer.
 
I had the same problem, but was able to do a "System
Restore" to a point when the network worked. Not the
best fix. I think XP has a problem. I've had it happen
with I changed the slot the NIC was in. It happens
everytime I plug my digital video camera into the
Firewire port.

Definitely knowing how to fix it permanently would be
great.
 
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
 
Thankyou, Ken
It worked....I had to rebuild the cataloguefrom scratch.
Thanks
Brian
-----Original Message-----
I have traced several of these problems to improperly configured winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to
Click to expand...
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
Click to expand...
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


--

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


Myron said:
I had the same problem, but was able to do a "System
Restore" to a point when the network worked. Not the
best fix. I think XP has a problem. I've had it happen
with I changed the slot the NIC was in. It happens
everytime I plug my digital video camera into the
Firewire port.

Definitely knowing how to fix it permanently would be
great.
Click to expand...


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Click to expand...
 
Ken,

Thanks a million. I had two machines that pulled this
error last night. I rebuilt one, but I really didn't
want to do the other. Thanks again.
 
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