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by kimscomputing

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This has happened to me twice now - please help I need my dsl connection. I have a AMD 2000 cpu, 512 MB, Radeon AIW - Win XP. I have a DSL Connection with an Efficient 4060 modem that was working perfectly until yesterday. I started messing around with network settings - trying to share the connection across a hub - because it is a usb modem. After that I cannot connect my modem. In fact even if I dial my isp the cpu connects but Internet Explorer will not come up. I have tried reinstalling the DSL modem twice to get the ip address to renew but no luck. When I run ipconfig renew it says "no socket available " right now it says that no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation. The modem has a steady green light and works fine with my laptop. There is just one setting wrong in networking with internet explorer. Please help. Thanks.

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by kimscomputing

when i run a repair on the connection in xp it says the repair operation failed: renewing the ip address

by shinzo

Maybe a long shot, but have you tried removing your network card and network settings and then tried re installing the modem. Secondly are you running XP home or Pro, as XP home has very poor networking capabilitites( if any)and finally if you need networked internet access try using internet connection sharing and purchasing a dsl router wouldnt hurt either.

by kimscomputing

I had a dsl router and tried reinstalling the modem several times. Because the 4060 is a USB Modem the router capabilites weren't there and I was forced to purchase another model.

by bchesmer

You can try this;

1. Remove ICS

2. Remove your network (DSL) connection in the reverse order you installed it.

3. Reinstall your network (DSL).

This should do the trick.

by rob

Hello there firstly DSL modems usually store the mac ic of the most recent network adapter , in this case i think it may be the one on the laptop. the Headend then usually has that adapter address matched to the released ip address from the dhcp server. one way is to release the ip address from the modem buy switching it off and allowing it to reset , can take a while depends on how isp have set up the dhcp server. XP Home and pro are nearly the same and home has no problems connecting to a dslmodem at all and should work fine. Also xp has a service called ICS which in itself has it's own NAT service for sharing the connection-- no need to use a hub just install a nic into the xp machine and go through the ics wizard in network connections .

rgds rob hughes

by kimscomputing

I have done it a hundred times myself - just found this problem to be a strange one. Even the microsoft tech couldn't help me.

by kimscomputing

I contacted Microsoft and after 2 hours of troubleshooting we looked for a system restore point and reverted to an earlier time and it worked fine. I am not sure what happened but I am at least on line again. I did try reinstalling the modem several times and setting the ip addresses to the addresses that the laptop was having no problem finding. This one is a mystery.

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