Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Connection Problem

Until the other day I had my XP Pro SP2 laptop linked wirelessly via
the Linksys Adapter Card above to my XP Pro SP2 desktop via a DSL
modem through a Linksys WRT54GS Router.

Although I could access the Web from both machines using this
arrangement , I was having problems sharing Folders and Printers and ,
in an effort to resolve this latter problem , I inadvertently
disconnected the cable between the router and the DSL modem while
trying to setup a wired linkup instead of a wireless linkup between
the 2 PC's

Since re-establishing this connection , I have been unable to get any
wireless connection to the Access Point which the Router is providing.
( or , for that matter , am also unable to get a wired linkup even
though this "Local Area Connection " is listed as " connected " )

Everything has been set-up as before , as far as I know , but , in
Network Connections on the laptop , the Wireless Link is stated as
"disconnected" and , in spite of going through the usual C.P. >
Network Connections> TSP/IP Properties ......etc , I have been unable
to re-setup this link as previously existed.

The only thing I notice is that , in Device Manager , under Network
Adapters , there is a yellow exclamation mark against " Odyssey
Network Services Miniport #3 " and , if I click on this , I get the
message :- " Windows cannot start this hardware device because its
configuration information ( in the Registry ) is incomplete or damaged
(Code 19) "

Both of the other two items in Device Manager / Network Adapters are
OK.

I don't know whether this error is a new one or whether it existed
before during the period when I had a successful wireless link
between the two PC's .

I have tried removing this problem by :-

1. unistalling and re-installing the Adapter software
2, Disabling and uninstalling this entry in D.M.
3. Removing the Odyssey Funk Software entries in the Registry.

None of these remove this yellow exclamation mark in D.M or get the
wireless link up to resume as it did before.



Questions:


Is this problem in D.M with the Odyssey Software significant ?

Is the existence "Odyssey Network Services" necessary to link these
two PC's

If it is , how do I re-install it ?

I have removed the Odyssey entry in CP>Add/Remove Programs - no change
!

I have already removed all references to Odyssey from the Registry .

Can anyone explain the reason for this problem ?

B.N.
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> Until the other day I had my XP Pro SP2 laptop linked wirelessly via
> the Linksys Adapter Card above to my XP Pro SP2 desktop via a DSL
> modem through a Linksys WRT54GS Router.
>
> Although I could access the Web from both machines using this
> arrangement , I was having problems sharing Folders and Printers and ,
> in an effort to resolve this latter problem , I inadvertently
> disconnected the cable between the router and the DSL modem while
> trying to setup a wired linkup instead of a wireless linkup between
> the 2 PC's
>
> Since re-establishing this connection , I have been unable to get any
> wireless connection to the Access Point which the Router is providing.
> ( or , for that matter , am also unable to get a wired linkup even
> though this "Local Area Connection " is listed as " connected " )
>
> Everything has been set-up as before , as far as I know , but , in
> Network Connections on the laptop , the Wireless Link is stated as
> "disconnected" and , in spite of going through the usual C.P. >
> Network Connections> TSP/IP Properties ......etc , I have been unable
> to re-setup this link as previously existed.
>
> The only thing I notice is that , in Device Manager , under Network
> Adapters , there is a yellow exclamation mark against " Odyssey
> Network Services Miniport #3 " and , if I click on this , I get the
> message :- " Windows cannot start this hardware device because its
> configuration information ( in the Registry ) is incomplete or damaged
> (Code 19) "
>
> Both of the other two items in Device Manager / Network Adapters are
> OK.
>
> I don't know whether this error is a new one or whether it existed
> before during the period when I had a successful wireless link
> between the two PC's .
>
> I have tried removing this problem by :-
>
> 1. unistalling and re-installing the Adapter software
> 2, Disabling and uninstalling this entry in D.M.
> 3. Removing the Odyssey Funk Software entries in the Registry.
>
> None of these remove this yellow exclamation mark in D.M or get the
> wireless link up to resume as it did before.
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
>
> Is this problem in D.M with the Odyssey Software significant ?
>
> Is the existence "Odyssey Network Services" necessary to link these
> two PC's
>
> If it is , how do I re-install it ?
>
> I have removed the Odyssey entry in CP>Add/Remove Programs - no change
> !
>
> I have already removed all references to Odyssey from the Registry .
>
> Can anyone explain the reason for this problem ?
>
> B.N.

Your network should be set up like this: DSL lint to modem, modem to
router, router via wire to wired NICs, router via wireless to wireless
NICs. I don't quite understand your description of where the comms
between computers has anything to do with the modem. The router is the
device that manages communications between LAN computers, the modem has
nothing to do with it.

Windows does not require the use of any third-party software for
comminicating between network computers. The simplest thing to do is
enable "simple file sharing" between computers.

Windows does not require the use of the vendor's software for wireless.
Wireless Zero Configuration is the usual service that manages wireless
connections, although you can use the vendor's utility if you disable
WZC. You don't need the Odyssey software.

There are excellent sites that offer guidance on Windows networking.
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/.../troubleshoot/

Google a download of winsockxpfix.exe to help with sudden connection
failures due to corruped layered TCP/IP services.

On possible reason for the disconnected connection is that you have
prevented a needed utility from running in msconfig: start, run command:
msconfig[enter], startup tab, look through the list for a disabled (not
checked) startup application that might be needed. Otherwise, I
recommend that you do not start anything "Oddeysey" but focus on using
Wireless Zero Configuration and Simple File Sharing. Help and Support
(Start Menu) will have information on both.

Thanks for the reply.

>Your network should be set up like this: DSL lint to modem, modem to
>router, router via wire to wired NICs, router via wireless to wireless
>NICs.

That is how I have it setup and is also the way it was setup when I
was able to wirelessly link the laptop to the router in order to surf
the Web from the laptop.


I don't quite understand your description of where the comms
>between computers has anything to do with the modem. The router is the
>device that manages communications between LAN computers, the modem has
>nothing to do with it.

I agree and apologise if my description indicated that I thought
otherwise.
>
>Windows does not require the use of any third-party software for
>comminicating between network computers.

I accept what you say here about Windows lack of the need for use of
third-party software to communicate between network computers

The only reason I mention third-party software here is that , when I
bought the Linksys Router and the Linksys laptop Adapter Card , both
came with Installation CD's which , according to the accompanying
instructions , I was required to install , that of the Router into the
Desktop and that of the Adapter Card into the laptop.This I did and
obtained the ability to access the Web from the laptop through the
Router . The Desktop , I presumed , would have accessed the Web
through the DSL modem and then the Router .

When I got this arrangement up and running initially , if I clicked on
Network Connections on the laptop , there were 2 Connections indicated
there , one was the Wireless Connection which indicated " Connected"
and the other was the Local Area Connection to the Laptops internal
NIC which was indicating " Disconnected " ( as I expected as I hadn't
, at that time , attempted to physically connect the laptop to the
Router by cable )

Is this a correct description of what happens in this sort of Hook-up
?

The simplest thing to do is
>enable "simple file sharing" between computers.

It may well be and I may eventually attempt that but , at the moment ,
I'm trying to understand why a previously successful wireless link-up
now no longer works.
>
>Windows does not require the use of the vendor's software for wireless.
>Wireless Zero Configuration is the usual service that manages wireless
>connections, although you can use the vendor's utility if you disable
>WZC. You don't need the Odyssey software.

Perhaps I should explain here why Odyssey became to be mentioned at
all in my OP.

After I had achieved successful wireless access to the Web from the
laptop , I then got involved in an attempt to troubleshoot a File and
Printer Sharing problem between both machines which , as it is a
different problem and should be the subject of a separate post
entirely I wont detail here except to say that ,since I was having
this Sharing problem with the wireless hook-up , I thought I might ,
perhaps illogically ! , have more success if I linked the laptop to
the Router by cable instead of wireless.
Attempting to do this I , inadvertently , disconnected one of the
cables between the DSL modem and Router ( I think that's what I did -
I can't remember my exact action here !) but , whatever it was I did
, not only did this action not solve the Sharing problem but it
resulted in my not being able to re-establish the wireless connection
to the Web from the laptop.

In trying to troubleshoot this new problem I found that , in Device
Manager on the laptop there was a yellow exclamation mark next to "
Odyssey Network Services Miniport #3 " and , if I click on this , I
get the message :- " Windows cannot start this hardware device because
its configuration information ( in the Registry ) is incomplete or
damaged (Code 19) "

Whether this message had been in Device Manager since my original
Installation of the Linksys Adapter Card I cannot say as I had , at
that time , no reason to look in Device Manager. But , whatever about
that , this was the first occasion I had ever heard of "Odyssey " and
it was only after further investigation that I noticed that this
software was included in this Linksys Adapter Card CD under a Folder
called "Funk" which I now know to be the origin of "Odyssey" software
I now further know , from correspondence on this difficulty of mine
with the Linksys people , that this Odyssey software is only needed
for W2K and earlier OS's and comes bundled with the CD accompanying
this Adapter Card.

Before reading your reply to me here , I have already followed a
Linksys suggestion to remove the Odyssey yellow exclamation error
message by rolling back the laptop to a date previous to that when
this all started - this I have already done but , although it has got
rid of the error reference to Odyssey , I still haven't got the
wireless connection back .As I am still in communication with Linksys
on this "work-around" I won't add the details of this to what is an
already too long reply of mine here !

>There are excellent sites that offer guidance on Windows networking.
>http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm
>http://www.practicallynetworked.com/.../troubleshoot/
>
>Google a download of winsockxpfix.exe to help with sudden connection
>failures due to corruped layered TCP/IP services.
>
>On possible reason for the disconnected connection is that you have
>prevented a needed utility from running in msconfig: start, run command:
>msconfig[enter], startup tab, look through the list for a disabled (not
>checked) startup application that might be needed. Otherwise, I
>recommend that you do not start anything "Oddeysey" but focus on using
>Wireless Zero Configuration and Simple File Sharing. Help and Support
>(Start Menu) will have information on both.

Thank you for the above links - I think I am already familiar with
them but I will read them again and will also consider your advice
above.

Will probably be re-posting on this !

B.N.

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>>Your network should be set up like this: DSL lint to modem, modem to
>>router, router via wire to wired NICs, router via wireless to wireless
>>NICs.
>
> That is how I have it setup and is also the way it was setup when I
> was able to wirelessly link the laptop to the router in order to surf
> the Web from the laptop.
>
>
> I don't quite understand your description of where the comms
>>between computers has anything to do with the modem. The router is
>>the
>>device that manages communications between LAN computers, the modem
>>has
>>nothing to do with it.
>
> I agree and apologise if my description indicated that I thought
> otherwise.
>>
>>Windows does not require the use of any third-party software for
>>comminicating between network computers.
>
> I accept what you say here about Windows lack of the need for use of
> third-party software to communicate between network computers
>
> The only reason I mention third-party software here is that , when I
> bought the Linksys Router and the Linksys laptop Adapter Card , both
> came with Installation CD's which , according to the accompanying
> instructions , I was required to install , that of the Router into the
> Desktop and that of the Adapter Card into the laptop.This I did and
> obtained the ability to access the Web from the laptop through the
> Router . The Desktop , I presumed , would have accessed the Web
> through the DSL modem and then the Router .
>
> When I got this arrangement up and running initially , if I clicked on
> Network Connections on the laptop , there were 2 Connections indicated
> there , one was the Wireless Connection which indicated " Connected"
> and the other was the Local Area Connection to the Laptops internal
> NIC which was indicating " Disconnected " ( as I expected as I hadn't
> , at that time , attempted to physically connect the laptop to the
> Router by cable )
>
> Is this a correct description of what happens in this sort of Hook-up
> ?
>
> The simplest thing to do is
>>enable "simple file sharing" between computers.
>
> It may well be and I may eventually attempt that but , at the moment ,
> I'm trying to understand why a previously successful wireless link-up
> now no longer works.
>>
>>Windows does not require the use of the vendor's software for
>>wireless.
>>Wireless Zero Configuration is the usual service that manages wireless
>>connections, although you can use the vendor's utility if you disable
>>WZC. You don't need the Odyssey software.
>
> Perhaps I should explain here why Odyssey became to be mentioned at
> all in my OP.
>
> After I had achieved successful wireless access to the Web from the
> laptop , I then got involved in an attempt to troubleshoot a File and
> Printer Sharing problem between both machines which , as it is a
> different problem and should be the subject of a separate post
> entirely I wont detail here except to say that ,since I was having
> this Sharing problem with the wireless hook-up , I thought I might ,
> perhaps illogically ! , have more success if I linked the laptop to
> the Router by cable instead of wireless.
> Attempting to do this I , inadvertently , disconnected one of the
> cables between the DSL modem and Router ( I think that's what I did -
> I can't remember my exact action here !) but , whatever it was I did
> , not only did this action not solve the Sharing problem but it
> resulted in my not being able to re-establish the wireless connection
> to the Web from the laptop.
>
> In trying to troubleshoot this new problem I found that , in Device
> Manager on the laptop there was a yellow exclamation mark next to "
> Odyssey Network Services Miniport #3 " and , if I click on this , I
> get the message :- " Windows cannot start this hardware device because
> its configuration information ( in the Registry ) is incomplete or
> damaged (Code 19) "
>
> Whether this message had been in Device Manager since my original
> Installation of the Linksys Adapter Card I cannot say as I had , at
> that time , no reason to look in Device Manager. But , whatever about
> that , this was the first occasion I had ever heard of "Odyssey " and
> it was only after further investigation that I noticed that this
> software was included in this Linksys Adapter Card CD under a Folder
> called "Funk" which I now know to be the origin of "Odyssey" software
> I now further know , from correspondence on this difficulty of mine
> with the Linksys people , that this Odyssey software is only needed
> for W2K and earlier OS's and comes bundled with the CD accompanying
> this Adapter Card.
>
> Before reading your reply to me here , I have already followed a
> Linksys suggestion to remove the Odyssey yellow exclamation error
> message by rolling back the laptop to a date previous to that when
> this all started - this I have already done but , although it has got
> rid of the error reference to Odyssey , I still haven't got the
> wireless connection back .As I am still in communication with Linksys
> on this "work-around" I won't add the details of this to what is an
> already too long reply of mine here !
>
>>There are excellent sites that offer guidance on Windows networking.
>>http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm
>>http://www.practicallynetworked.com/.../troubleshoot/
>>
>>Google a download of winsockxpfix.exe to help with sudden connection
>>failures due to corruped layered TCP/IP services.
>>
>>On possible reason for the disconnected connection is that you have
>>prevented a needed utility from running in msconfig: start, run
>>command:
>>msconfig[enter], startup tab, look through the list for a disabled
>>(not
>>checked) startup application that might be needed. Otherwise, I
>>recommend that you do not start anything "Oddeysey" but focus on using
>>Wireless Zero Configuration and Simple File Sharing. Help and Support
>>(Start Menu) will have information on both.
>
> Thank you for the above links - I think I am already familiar with
> them but I will read them again and will also consider your advice
> above.
>
> Will probably be re-posting on this !
>
> B.N.
>
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>
> to reply by e-mail remove "admiral_"

Thanks for the detail. You should shut down computers, router, and
modem. Restart the modem, then the router, and then the computers.
This procedure should always be the first step in network problem
diagnosis.

There is an oddity that comes up in the TCP/IP properties, Options tab,
TCP/IP filtering, Properties button. Make sure that filtering is
disabled. If there are Permit None selected here, enable filtering,
select Permit All, and then disable filtering. I don't know why this
setting changes; maybe something to do with the Windows firewall, but it
will lock you out of any network activity.

Access the router from the wired computer and check the wireless setup
on the router. Disable, temporarily, any security, MAC filtering, etc.
Check the DHCP client table to see if the laptop is recognized by the
router. On the laptop, check TCP/IP settings as above, and disable
802.11x authentication in the connection properties, another source of
wireless failure.

Q