Can't add tcp/ip protocol

I've used an 802.11b PCMCIA card for months with no
problems but now I can't connect to the host because I
lost my tcp/ip somehow. When I right click on "Network
Neighborhood" and select properties, nothing happens when
I click the "add" button after selecting "add"
then "protocol"

I bought a used notebook and don't have the Windows 98SE
install or recovery CD's. I just have what's in the Win98
folder -- tons of .cab files.

A pointer to a book or Knowledge Base article would be
sufficient.

Thanks a lot,
Larry

When I click on Network in my Control Panel, I get a
dialog box that says "Your network is not complete."

I'm running Windows 98SE as a single user. Do I have to
somehow log in as a system administrator to install
TCP/IP?

Thanks again to one and all who post replies.

Larry

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-----Original Message-----
I've used an 802.11b PCMCIA card for months with no
problems but now I can't connect to the host because I
lost my tcp/ip somehow. When I right click on "Network
Neighborhood" and select properties, nothing happens when
I click the "add" button after selecting "add"
then "protocol"

I bought a used notebook and don't have the Windows 98SE
install or recovery CD's. I just have what's in the Win98
folder -- tons of .cab files.

A pointer to a book or Knowledge Base article would be
sufficient.

Thanks a lot,
Larry
.

In addition to the dialog box stating that "Your network
is not complete" when I double-click Network in my Control
Panel, I am confronted with only the Configuration tab;
the Identification and Access Control tabs are missing!

What am I now missing? I ran TCP/IP on 802.11b for months
and visited countless web sites!

Once again, a pointer to a book, article or Knowledge Base
entry would be great. I've searched the Knowledge Base
extensively and don't find anything about my problem.

Thanks much,
Larry

-----Original Message-----
I've used an 802.11b PCMCIA card for months with no
problems but now I can't connect to the host because I
lost my tcp/ip somehow. When I right click on "Network
Neighborhood" and select properties, nothing happens when
I click the "add" button after selecting "add"
then "protocol"

I bought a used notebook and don't have the Windows 98SE
install or recovery CD's. I just have what's in the Win98
folder -- tons of .cab files.

A pointer to a book or Knowledge Base article would be
sufficient.

Thanks a lot,
Larry
.

Remove and reinstall DUN and TCP/IP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q181599

If that doesn't help, you probably need a winsock repair:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/lsp_fix.htm

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_______________________________________
Sandi - Microsoft MVP since 1999 (IE/OE)
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org

"Larry Ballard" wrote in message
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I've used an 802.11b PCMCIA card for months with no
problems but now I can't connect to the host because I
lost my tcp/ip somehow. When I right click on "Network
Neighborhood" and select properties, nothing happens when
I click the "add" button after selecting "add"
then "protocol"

I bought a used notebook and don't have the Windows 98SE
install or recovery CD's. I just have what's in the Win98
folder -- tons of .cab files.

A pointer to a book or Knowledge Base article would be
sufficient.

Thanks a lot,
Larry

The problem was apparently not with some .inf files, but
rather with the Windows Registry. I got my TCP/IP stack
back by backing up my registry and extracting USER.DAT and
SYSTEM.DAT
-----Original Message-----
I've used an 802.11b PCMCIA card for months with no
problems but now I can't connect to the host because I
lost my tcp/ip somehow. When I right click on "Network
Neighborhood" and select properties, nothing happens when
I click the "add" button after selecting "add"
then "protocol"

I bought a used notebook and don't have the Windows 98SE
install or recovery CD's. I just have what's in the Win98
folder -- tons of .cab files.

A pointer to a book or Knowledge Base article would be
sufficient.

Thanks a lot,
Larry
.

The problem was not with any .inf files, but rather with
my Windows Registry (surprise, surprise). I got my TCP/IP
stack back immediatlely by backing up my windows registry
using regedit in Windows, extracting USER.DAT and
SYSTEM.DAT from an old rb00?.cab file in DOS, then booting
Windows again. (Set appropriate attributes on the
extracted .DAT's and saved the old ones by renaming them,
just in case Windows wouldn't boot anymore.)

After I restored some of the files mentioned in Q181599,
I ran System File Checker and saw that some of the virtual
device drivers (.vxd files) I restored per Q181599 were
*older* than the ones I had renamed to .dxv files. This
caused some problems because my computer's manufacturer
had updated several drivers since the last release of my
Windows OS (Windows 98SE 4.10.2222 A).

Anyway, I've got TCP/IP back and my Network dialog box in
the Control Panel now shows Identification and Access
Control tabs with *all* appropriate client, server and
protocol entries.

Hope this helps anyone in the future who may have this
problem, and thanks for the guidance.

Larry