Wireless Zero Config Not Starting

teee123 · 06-22-2008, 05:52 PM

I've been having very strange wireless connection issues in the past week.

Everything ran fine previously, but downloads would stop after 1-5 minutes and the connection constantly dropped.

Now, the connection is better but one of my laptops will only connect with an ethernet cable going directly into the router, otherwise hangs at "acquiring network address" and "invalid ip".

This has happened plenty of times but here's where it gets really weird:

-When I tried to connect to my wireless connection it said "Windows cannot configure the wireless connection" and requested that I start the Wireless Zero Configuration. So I went to run services.msc and scrolled down to WZC and sure enough it was not started. So I started it, clicked "Use Windows to configure connection" under the wireless networks tabs and the networks in the area showed up again. Unfortunately, this did nothing so I attempted to assign the single non-working laptop a static ip which also didn't work.

-I then stumbled across this site and tried the netsh stack repair option suggested by johnwill and something even stranger happened:

-A second Vista laptop which had stopped connecting to the net wirelessly suddenly started working when I ran the stack repair command on the XP machine!

-When I rebooted the XP machine, WZC was again disabled, as it seems to be every time I restart, have to manually start it. The Vista machine seemed to lose its connection again until I started WZC....I have no idea whats going on.

All this time I have been unable to get wireless working on the XP machine while it runs flawlessly on my Vista laptop and a small Linux PC.

Can anybody help me out here? I'm using a
-Dell Inspiron 1501 XP SP2
-Dell Wireless LAN 1390 Mini-card driver ver. 4.100.15.5
-router is a Belkin F5D7230-4 firmware ver. 9.01.07

Of course I've tried plugging/unplugging everything, even reset the router, but nothing. I'm getting irritated enough to do a clean nLite install or something and just back up my files and programs.

lawrence.cook · 06-23-2008, 03:41 AM

the dell drivers for your network card probably have settings somewhere saying something like 'allow this program to configure my network connections'.. if you try find this and disable it, then the WZC service should stay started.. I assume you set the properties of the service to start automatically?

06-22-2008, 05:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
teee123 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP2	Wireless Zero Config Not Starting I've been having very strange wireless connection issues in the past week. Everything ran fine previously, but downloads would stop after 1-5 minutes and the connection constantly dropped. Now, the connection is better but one of my laptops will only connect with an ethernet cable going directly into the router, otherwise hangs at "acquiring network address" and "invalid ip". This has happened plenty of times but here's where it gets really weird: -When I tried to connect to my wireless connection it said "Windows cannot configure the wireless connection" and requested that I start the Wireless Zero Configuration. So I went to run services.msc and scrolled down to WZC and sure enough it was not started. So I started it, clicked "Use Windows to configure connection" under the wireless networks tabs and the networks in the area showed up again. Unfortunately, this did nothing so I attempted to assign the single non-working laptop a static ip which also didn't work. -I then stumbled across this site and tried the netsh stack repair option suggested by johnwill and something even stranger happened: -A second Vista laptop which had stopped connecting to the net wirelessly suddenly started working when I ran the stack repair command on the XP machine! -When I rebooted the XP machine, WZC was again disabled, as it seems to be every time I restart, have to manually start it. The Vista machine seemed to lose its connection again until I started WZC....I have no idea whats going on. All this time I have been unable to get wireless working on the XP machine while it runs flawlessly on my Vista laptop and a small Linux PC. Can anybody help me out here? I'm using a -Dell Inspiron 1501 XP SP2 -Dell Wireless LAN 1390 Mini-card driver ver. 4.100.15.5 -router is a Belkin F5D7230-4 firmware ver. 9.01.07 Of course I've tried plugging/unplugging everything, even reset the router, but nothing. I'm getting irritated enough to do a clean nLite install or something and just back up my files and programs.

06-23-2008, 03:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
lawrence.cook Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: England Posts: 187 OS: Vista 7 Ultimate x64	Re: Wireless Zero Config Not Starting the dell drivers for your network card probably have settings somewhere saying something like 'allow this program to configure my network connections'.. if you try find this and disable it, then the WZC service should stay started.. I assume you set the properties of the service to start automatically?