WAN MiniPort problem

I keep getting a yellow exclamation mark next to my WAN MINIPORT(Network Adapter)! Here is the info

Driver Date: 7/1/2001
Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0

And signed and published by Microsoft

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I went to update automatically, doesn't work; I went and choose from a list of compatible which comes up the the Wan Miniport driver and it says will work after reboot but it doesn't!!!! Please help with getting it fixed

 

WAN Miniport is normally hidden & is internal device, set & detected by Windows automatically without any input from user.

A yellow exclaimation marks points to some network component problem and NOT to WAN Miniport itself. Windows is not able to find all networking components (like TCP/IP) and thus is showing the exclaimation mark.
Check you networking configuration - uninstall and reinstall TCP/IP, Networking for Windows and then see what happens.

 

Yep when I try to repair my 1394 connection I get a error message saying

"Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following action cannot be completed:
TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection. Cannot proceed "

I check properties of 1394 and the Tcp/ip protcol looks fine all set to auto detect.

How do I fix it.

 

Are you using 1394? try to disable it and see what happens.

 

I believe I'm using my Nvidia nForce motherboard network ethernet adapter, I'll try to disable the 1394 and see what happens

OK> All it did was put a red X over where the yellow marker was.

I have the following under my Network Adapters on the device manager

1394 Network Adapter
NIVDIA nForce Networking Controller
WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)

 

billibob,

Can you use you NVidia LAN controller ? If you can, just forget about 1394 if you are not going to use it.

 

I can use it I think, but I'm having trouble connecting to my home network it's timing out or something

 

How are you conected to your network? Are you using switch or cross cable? How is the IP being assigned?

 

My roommate and I are connected through a router (hardwired), we have different ip's. They change so they are dynamic?

 

u can probably just delete all the non-functioning devices in devman and reboot. win should redetect them and re-install the drivers.

another option is PnP bios setup. most machines come setup to 'do' pnp via OS but ... i opt to let the bios configure devices and then the OS must use the resources as they assigned thru the bios.

most of the time, such problems are solved by changing the bios' PnP setting to whatever it ISN'T on currently ... just change it and reboot. there is often another bios setting that sez akin to 'reset config data' which may help if the bios pnp setting switch doesn't solve outright. that'll force a re-read of the HW resources and reassign io/irq assignments.

if the problem IS an io/irq issue - meaning that some device is not getting a proper io/irq address - then another option i've used often is to disable stuff u'r not using. most common here is COM ports since there may be 1 or 2 of them and, if they're not used, then u can get the io/irq resources back by diabling them in bios.