Dave Bonnell

Yes I have, that is what I meant when I said "disabling suspend mode". I'll
try your suggestion of a system repair from the Vista installation DVD.


-Dave

"Stuart [MVP]" wrote:

> Have you verified the NIC isn't set to allow the computer to turn it off to
> save power?
> (Power Management Tab in the Device Manager NIC Device properties UI).
>
> I'd further suggest you perform an in-place repair using the original Vista
> DVD media.
>
> Stuart.
> --------
>
> "Dave Bonnell" wrote:
>
> > This is a follow-up post to a previous thread I posted titled "Networking
> > DOA: Unidentified Network, Access: Local Only" to which I have not received a
> > satisfactory response.
> >
> > All of the details can be found in the above mentioned thread but I will
> > summarize the main points of the problem again here for clarity.
> >
> > * Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, driver is b57xp32.sys,
> > v9.81.0.0, 11/10/2006, service name is b57w2k. I was using an earlier
> > driver (v9.52) when it stopped working; upgrading to the latest driver
> > (v9.81) made no difference.
> > * Was working fine under RC2, worked fine under RTM for about 1 week then
> > stopped working completely with the above network status
> > * Have tried Network Diagnose/Repair, disabling suspend mode, disabling TCP
> > checksum offload, hibernate/resume, uninstalling/re-installing driver,
> > manullay setting TCP/IP configuration - problem persists
> > * No change to network configuration (router configuration, firewalls, or
> > otherwise) and other boxes on the same LAN continue to function and the same
> > box when booted in Windows XP Pro operates fine so its not the NIC
> > * Nothing in the event logs to indicate a problem with the adapter or
> > networking
> > * System Information reports that the b57w2k service is "Stopped" and that
> > it's start mode is "Manual" so it seems for some reason the driver has been
> > stopped and I have no idea why or how to restart it. Disabling/enabling the
> > adapter has no affect nor does Network Diagnose/Repair.
> >
> > HELP!!!!
> >
> >
> > David Bonnell
> > BMC Software, Inc