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re: XP Networking Connections Blank and Ipconfig won't run Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 4:59 am Posted by beebobby (70 messages posted) Does your LAN connection show up if you right click Network Connections and go to Properties? If not then your NIC isn't being picked up. If it is in network connections, right click on the Lan connection, select properties and make sure that Client for Microsoft Networks is showing under "This connection uses the following items". If it isn't, Add it. On Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 10:35 am, allaprima1 wrote: >OK folks, here goes: >I have an XP Home machine that needs to be a client to a 2K server (already a host >to a third machine running 2k) and the Network Connections folder on the XP machine >is empty. I also apparently cannot create a new connection. I am allowed to go through >the create a new connection wizard, and have tried to create one manually as well, >but the connection I create never shows up. The network connections folder is absolutely >empty. Additionally, when I reun Ipconfig under the command prompt, it returns with >an internal error of the request is not supported and additional info is unable to >query host name (which I have input into all the network connections that fail to >appear) This machine came pre-installed with XP Home SP1, and has no XP specific >disc, only system recovery disks, all the XP files are on the hard drive in I386. >Ipconfig does exist in my System32 folder and it is identical to the one in the I386 >folder. Do I need to purchase XP home with SP2, or is there a workaround for this? >Additional info. is the XP machine installed with a Linksys Wireless adapter which >can see the access point but not the router or the internet, so upgrading via the >internet is a no-go (I am typing this on the 2K host machine) HELP! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Networking Connections Blank and Ipconfig won't run Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 11:39 am Posted by allaprima1 (6 messages posted) Well, I apparently solved the problem, although I have NO idea how (never a good sign) I rolled back my windows installation to a date prior to the installation of the wireless adapter card, and then voila, when I re-installed the driver for it, up pops the Wireless network wizard. Afterwards, all went as it should. And I can connect to the LAN, and the net. I need to re-install some other programs, but that's no big swirl compared to what I had been going through! Go figure! Used to be it was MUCH EASIER to get into the inner workings of Windows and troubleshoot.... I don't have NEAR the problems on my 2k machines.... Thanks for all your input! It STILL puzzles me why I simply COULD NOT get ANY kind of network connection to show up at ALL despite how it was created.... but, as the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and at the moment (at least) it's working. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Networking Connections Blank and Ipconfig won't run Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 11:47 am Posted by allaprima1 (6 messages posted) One other side note: I had rolled back the OS to several dates, and rolled it forward, then back again, and it finally worked. This is why I am puzzled. I had treated this machine as a standalone, and had done absolutely NOTHING to connect it to a network or NOT, and no programs that I had instaled had anything to do with networking either (they are graphics programs only) I couldn't click on a connection because there weren't any! Even if I created one! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Networking Connections Blank and Ipconfig won't run Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 12:21 pm Posted by allaprima1 (6 messages posted) One more thing, you were correct that my NIC was not being recognized. Apparently there is a probelm (or so I have read) with NIC's in a PCI slot, and the driver doesn't get picked up (if I had another open PCI slot I would have moved the card) but somehow the rolling backwards and forwards of the OS somehow seemed to get everything to click. I have subsequently installed SP2, hopefully it will iron out all the kinks. Thanks again, everyone! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum