[ale] home networking difficulties

[James P. Kinney III]

I hate to mention this as it is a poor excuse for administration of a
machine, but have you done the "back-up data, wipe drive, install from
scratch" process on the windows box. I have not used WinME, but I have
run into Win9x situations where, due to registry scrambling and
dll-hell, a reinstall was the only process that worked. 

At this point, short of the complete reinstall, I would suggest removing
(from the gui wizards process) the entire networking components. Start
with the protocol level and work up (or down, depending on viewpoint)
the dependency chain to the hardware level. Remove the service component
before the hardware if you can. Then reboot and have the driver disks
ready.

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 09:30, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> Just an update for those who have been following along.
> 
> I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the network card.
>  Didn't work.  
> 
> I did some more research and discovered that there was
> a Windows ME networking bug (imagine that, a bug in an
> M$ operating system) which I fixed by hacking the
> registry and reinstalling the vnetbios.vxd virtual
> device driver.  This didn't help either. 
> 
> I know this is a windows problem now, but does anybody
> have any ideas?
> 
> Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> 
> > We have some success.  And I can say, unequivocally,
> and without any
> > reasonable doubt....My networking difficulties lie
> entirely at the feet
> > of Bill Gates.  It's Window's fault.
> > 
> > You see, I realized just today, that a while back I
> had made the windows
> > box a dual boot.  However, since X was not playing
> nice with my vid
> > card, and about that time, I got my dedicated tux
> box, I totally forgot.  
> > 
> > Anyway, with linux up both machines, they network
> just fine.  Even with
> > ipchains running on the router box, no problems at
> all.
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > I am thinking about uninstalling and reinstalling the
> > network card in windows.  Any other suggestions?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Andrew Grimmke
> Marietta, Georgia
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