Well I don't have your hardware, but it looks to me that you are using a
driver design for Windows 2000 and not vista. Have you permitted vista to
connect to the internet and download the latest driver?
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"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