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No internet connection/wireless network
My sons computer has win98 se and has worked just fine connecting to the
internet thru' a linksys wireless adaptor. Today I can not get his computer contected to the internet. The adaptor has excellent signal, I can see his computer on the network from my laptop (running Vista) but we get nothing for the internet. My son said he installed some webtv thing that was on his computer to see what is was and it installed some kind of hardware driver stuff. He is not sure what. He said he uninstalled the webtv thing. I have no idea what he did but this may be what is confusing his computer for internet connection. Can someone please give me some ideas on what I can check for in the way of settings and such. Thanks. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:40:17 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: My sons computer has win98 se and has worked just fine connecting to the internet thru' a linksys wireless adaptor. Today I can not get his computer contected to the internet. The adaptor has excellent signal, I can see his computer on the network from my laptop (running Vista) but we get nothing for the internet. My son said he installed some webtv thing that was on his computer to see what is was and it installed some kind of hardware driver stuff. He is not sure what. He said he uninstalled the webtv thing. I have no idea what he did but this may be what is confusing his computer for internet connection. Can someone please give me some ideas on what I can check for in the way of settings and such. Thanks. It appears your winsock settings have become corrupted. The old way of repairing it was 1. Un-install Dial-Up Networking. Don't reboot. 2. Delete registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2 3. Re-install Dial-Up Networking. Reboot. However, that fix didn't work for winxp so a number of utility programs were released which will repair the settings and in the main these utilities are also appropriate for win98. One such is LSPfix http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm I would try running that first and if it doesn't work try the old fashioned long winded method. Jim. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:40:17 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: My sons computer has win98 se and has worked just fine connecting to the internet thru' a linksys wireless adaptor. Today I can not get his computer contected to the internet. The adaptor has excellent signal, I can see his computer on the network from my laptop (running Vista) but we get nothing for the internet. My son said he installed some webtv thing that was on his computer to see what is was and it installed some kind of hardware driver stuff. He is not sure what. He said he uninstalled the webtv thing. I have no idea what he did but this may be what is confusing his computer for internet connection. Can someone please give me some ideas on what I can check for in the way of settings and such. Thanks. It appears your winsock settings have become corrupted. The old way of repairing it was 1. Un-install Dial-Up Networking. Don't reboot. 2. Delete registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2 3. Re-install Dial-Up Networking. Reboot. However, that fix didn't work for winxp so a number of utility programs were released which will repair the settings and in the main these utilities are also appropriate for win98. One such is LSPfix http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm I would try running that first and if it doesn't work try the old fashioned long winded method. Jim. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
Thanks one question tho'. Does uninstalling the 'dail up networking' help
with the wireless network problem? Does all internet connection, dial up, wireless and ethernet need winsock? "James Egan" wrote in message ... On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:40:17 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: My sons computer has win98 se and has worked just fine connecting to the internet thru' a linksys wireless adaptor. Today I can not get his computer contected to the internet. The adaptor has excellent signal, I can see his computer on the network from my laptop (running Vista) but we get nothing for the internet. My son said he installed some webtv thing that was on his computer to see what is was and it installed some kind of hardware driver stuff. He is not sure what. He said he uninstalled the webtv thing. I have no idea what he did but this may be what is confusing his computer for internet connection. Can someone please give me some ideas on what I can check for in the way of settings and such. Thanks. It appears your winsock settings have become corrupted. The old way of repairing it was 1. Un-install Dial-Up Networking. Don't reboot. 2. Delete registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2 3. Re-install Dial-Up Networking. Reboot. However, that fix didn't work for winxp so a number of utility programs were released which will repair the settings and in the main these utilities are also appropriate for win98. One such is LSPfix http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm I would try running that first and if it doesn't work try the old fashioned long winded method. Jim. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
Thanks one question tho'. Does uninstalling the 'dail up networking' help
with the wireless network problem? Does all internet connection, dial up, wireless and ethernet need winsock? "James Egan" wrote in message ... On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:40:17 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: My sons computer has win98 se and has worked just fine connecting to the internet thru' a linksys wireless adaptor. Today I can not get his computer contected to the internet. The adaptor has excellent signal, I can see his computer on the network from my laptop (running Vista) but we get nothing for the internet. My son said he installed some webtv thing that was on his computer to see what is was and it installed some kind of hardware driver stuff. He is not sure what. He said he uninstalled the webtv thing. I have no idea what he did but this may be what is confusing his computer for internet connection. Can someone please give me some ideas on what I can check for in the way of settings and such. Thanks. It appears your winsock settings have become corrupted. The old way of repairing it was 1. Un-install Dial-Up Networking. Don't reboot. 2. Delete registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2 3. Re-install Dial-Up Networking. Reboot. However, that fix didn't work for winxp so a number of utility programs were released which will repair the settings and in the main these utilities are also appropriate for win98. One such is LSPfix http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm I would try running that first and if it doesn't work try the old fashioned long winded method. Jim. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:51:01 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: Thanks one question tho'. Does uninstalling the 'dail up networking' help with the wireless network problem? You don't have a wireless problem as indicated by your local network browsing. Does all internet connection, dial up, wireless and ethernet need winsock? Yes. Wired or wireless it's the same for both. Jim. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:51:01 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: Thanks one question tho'. Does uninstalling the 'dail up networking' help with the wireless network problem? You don't have a wireless problem as indicated by your local network browsing. Does all internet connection, dial up, wireless and ethernet need winsock? Yes. Wired or wireless it's the same for both. Jim. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
Thank you that LSPFix did the job. All is well now. Thanks!!!!
"James Egan" wrote in message ... On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:51:01 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: Thanks one question tho'. Does uninstalling the 'dail up networking' help with the wireless network problem? You don't have a wireless problem as indicated by your local network browsing. Does all internet connection, dial up, wireless and ethernet need winsock? Yes. Wired or wireless it's the same for both. Jim. |
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No internet connection/wireless network
Thank you that LSPFix did the job. All is well now. Thanks!!!!
"James Egan" wrote in message ... On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:51:01 GMT, "Goldlexus" wrote: Thanks one question tho'. Does uninstalling the 'dail up networking' help with the wireless network problem? You don't have a wireless problem as indicated by your local network browsing. Does all internet connection, dial up, wireless and ethernet need winsock? Yes. Wired or wireless it's the same for both. Jim. |
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