Limited or No Connectivity XPSP3

[Brian]

My three computers (Win2k, Vista and PCLinuxOS 2007) connect to my router no problems. My friend had an issue with her laptop (XPSP3) with both Wireless and LAN connections. It shows Limited or No Connectivity.

IPCONFIG shows the following

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Autoconfiguration IP Address: 169.254.59.51
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
IP Addresss: ?
Default Gateway:

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Autoconfiguration IP Address: 169.254.181.122
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
IP Address: ?
Default Gateway:

Tunnell adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
IP Address: ?
Default Gateway:

I have uninstalled both with no joy.
Says it receives but send packets. But even at that the sent is 9 or 10 packets.
Tried a repair on both to no avail.
Just uninstalled Norton.
Disabled Windows Firewall. No other firewall present.
Both are set to Obtain address Automatically.
I saw somewhere to do "netsh winsock reset" but it just says MSWSOCK.dll was not found, try reinstalling ....

Any ideas ? Tis late and I cant think :S

[Rock]

Hi Brian... Try assigning an IP address to that machine.. it'd bring it into existence

[Brian]

Didnt work
At the office now. Same thing, all of the PC's work except this.

[WelshTom]

169.254 is the prefix windows adds to an IP address should it not find a DHCP signal. Have you ensure the manual settings you have set matchup to the subnet mask etc?

[Brian]

Yup.
It says it has SP3 too but does not have an option to uninstall from Add/Remove either. Wondering if the System Restore she did messed up.

[Brian]

After alot of hacking around I replaced nswsock.dll I believe it was called and it worked

[Rock]

After alot of hacking around I replaced nswsock.dll I believe it was called and it worked

nice work

[WelshTom]

Glad to see you've resolved your problem. If I were you, I'd reinstall the service pack, just in case other files have also been corrupted.

[Brian]

I did before I replaced the DLL's.