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by adobbins

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I am running a Dell Inspiron 3800 with Windows 2000. In device manager under network adapters is listed 3 devices. My network card and wan miniport (ip) and wan miniport (ipx). Both wan miniports are showing the yellow exclamation and the messageunder properties states that the driver for these miniports is the problem. I have updated the driver and Windows will not allow the ports to be removed. All service packs are up to date on this machine. I cannot establish a vpn tunnel with my client software for my firewalls (Sonic Wall) and I am wondering if anyone knows of a solution for this problem and could it be my vpn problem.

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by todd kimbrell

If you have not already been in the registry trying to change the user_removable_wanMiniPort. Then good, otherwise i believe we have to un bind the protocols that are tied to the miniports. I would try to uninstall your protocols and reboot the system then try to remove and reinstall the wan miniports.

Happy hunting!

by adobbins

I did un/reinstall the protocols with no resolution and the system would not let me unistall the wan miniports. I finally wiped and reloaded the system. That fixed it.

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