64-Bit Firewall on WIN XP Laptop Killed IP Connectivity

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I mistakenly downloaded the 64-bit version of the Comodo Firewall, and tried to install it on a WIN XP Home laptop.

It didn’t install (of course), but now the laptop is unable to connect to the Internet using either Wi-Fi or Ethernet. The Wi-Fi or Ethernet link is established, but no IP address is set up.

Can anyone please advise how to repair this situation?

Thank you.

Richard Fry
Illinois, USA

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Have you tried right clicking on the Local Area Connection Icon in the task bar and selecting “Repair”

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Yes, thanks. It tries the repair but after running a while it fails with a message to the effect that an IP address could not be established – even though the Wi-Fi link shows a good connection.

Same with an ethernet connection.

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What happens if you do “ipconfig /renew”(no quotes) from a cmd prompt(start,run,cmd)
Also what does it say if you type in “ipconfig /all”
Have you re-booted your router and/or modem since as this may help(it seems like a dhcp problem)

Matty

ps Welcome to the forums

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Thanks for the reply. I’ll have to wait to do that until I can get to my laptop again.

I did re-boot the laptop, but the problem continued. The DSL modem works fine with other PCs at the same location, so it doesn’t seem to be involved.

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Below is the result of running those two commands. Hope that will tell you is going on…

Thanks.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Fry>ipconfig /renew

Windows IP Configuration

No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection 3 while it has its media
disconnected.
An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : An oper
ation was attempted on something that is not a socket.

No operation can be performed on while it has its media disconnected.

C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Fry>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

    Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Insp_1000
    Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
    Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
    IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
    WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adap

ter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-1F-A9-54-1E

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN PC Card
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-10-C6-38-D4-B2
    Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.68.65
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter {13CA5D0E-8E7A-4382-9D05-5A0C95AE71E8}:

    Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : TAP VPN Adapter - Packet Scheduler M

iniport
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-FF-13-CA-5D-0E

C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Fry>

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This looks like it is a corrupted winsock/winsock2

Try from a command prompt “netsh winsock reset” press enter, then re-boot.

If this fails you could try to reset the TCP/IP protocol

Command prompt “netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt” enter/re-boot

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Thanks for your suggestions, both of which I tried – but still have the problem unfortunately. Can you think of anything else to try?

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Try going into Control Panel------>Network Connections----->Right click on each Local area connection and select properties then configure and try troubleshoot or maybe try re-installing the drivers.

Have you tried doing a system restore to before you had the messed up install,might be worth a shot.

I`ve been looking at a few problems similar to this and one was the router not releasing the IP address(DHCP) properly.It was solved by reseting the router,i.e by holding a pin/pencil into the reset part normally located at the back of the router.

Have a read of this http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=28415 there are several things you can try like removing the wireless card,rebooting,puting it back in etc.

Matty