Dave Bonnell

The network configuration is correct. It's something else. Windows System
Information reports that the driver is stopped which I assume is not normal
but I will try to verify this on another working Vista system.


-Dave


"AJR" wrote:

> Would results of good old "ipconfig /all" be of value?
>
> "Dave Bonnell" <DaveBonnell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3375C5AA-EFED-4296-B3D5-6FC2F6DC9B89@microsoft.com...
> > 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
>
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