NIC won't connect - says Link Support Layer missing

[RonPro]

I have a W2Kpro desktop that I recently tried to put wireless on. It hasn't worked so I'm trying to restore it to the wired NIC that was in it previously. It now tells me that the NIC is '..functioning properly' but the event log says that the network connectinos can't be made becuase the LSL is missing.

Due to having uninstalled/installed and reinstalled a few times to try all of this out I have somehow lost the LSL.

Can someone tell me how to get this going again?

 

[bcastner]

Try this first, as I wrote this FAQ for exactly this sort of annoying problem: faq779-4625

 

[RonPro]

Thanks. I did a search on this topic assuming others would have also encountered it, but I must not have used the right terms or whatever.

 

[bcastner]

Did it help?

As there are Stage Two sorts of solutions possible.

Bill

 

[RonPro]

I won't know till later when I can get back to that issue, but it will be within the next 24 hrs.

Thanks!

 

[bcastner]

Remember the Link Layer is at a fairly primitive level. Look very carefully at the cable plant, drop cables, wall-plates, etc.

This is less an OS issue than hardware, though as I said above start by making your OS side clean.

 

[RonPro]

OK. But I've tested the wall jack and it does work w/other PCs.

 

[bcastner]

I would think "bad NIC."
But see how far you get with the logical layer, by repairing the Winsock service.

 

[RonPro]

The program did the trick !

Thanks

 

[bcastner]

Good job.
Bill