Wifi Mystery problem... SOLVED! AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

[Pugsley]

Heres one nobody thought of thats not the problem.. do they live near powerlines or a sub station or within 20 miles of an MRI or particle accelerator? that could of broke it!

[FlyingPenguin]

did you make sure the "wireless Zero Config" service is enabled ?

WE HAVE A WINNER!

SMB, you were on the mark! Congradulations, you can have this Logitech MX500 that I can't use because it gives me wrist cramps.


When I finally got the laptop back in my greedy little paws this week (client's been using it on a hard-wire network connection so she was in no rush for me to work on it) I checked and THERE WAS NO WIRELESS ZERO CONFIGURATION service listed in Services at all. NADA, NOTHING, MISSING GONE!

I have no idea how that could possibly happen, especially considering the owner is NOT a techie and certainly wasn't tampering with the registry or anything arcane (she can barely use AOL).

Nor did I have any clue how to restore it.

I was assuming a repair install would be necessary BUT a dedicated search of Google (what the hell will we ever do if they start charging for Google? I'd pay it!) turned up a fix posted on a tech forum. It's a simple registry patch.

For the benefit of anyone else who may run into the problem here it is:

(BTW: The forum messes up the text in the registry listing - it prematurely adds carriage returns. If you need this text you can get it here: http://soldcentralfl.com/bob/wifi_fix.txt)

If "Wireless Zero Configuration" is not listed in Services.msc page, you need to copy the following script to notepad and save as a .REG file (for example: wireless.reg)

===============Copy from next line=================
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC]
"Type"=dword:00000020
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\
00,76,00,63,00,68,00,6f,00,73,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2d,00,\
6b,00,20,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,73,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Wireless Zero Configuration"
"Group"="TDI"
"DependOnService"=hex(7):52,00,70,00,63,00,53,00,73,00,00,00,4e,00,64,00,69,00,\
73,00,75,00,69,00,6f,00,00,00,00,00
"DependOnGroup"=hex(7):00,00
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"Description"="Provides automatic configuration for the 802.11 adapters"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC\Parameters]
"ServiceDll"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\
00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\
77,00,7a,00,63,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ServiceMain"="WZCSvcMain"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC\Security]
"Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,90,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,\
00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
00,00,02,00,60,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,12,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,\
20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,00,\
00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,01,01,\
00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_WZCSVC\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

===============Copy till previous line=================

Now, right-click the wireless.reg file and choose "Merge"

Restart Windows. Now, the service will be listed.

[smb]

Hey, cool, glad I could help out.

Sal

[Pugsley]

what else it strange... i came home once and i couldnet figure out why my computer couldent see anythign in the house. some how the nic was diabled.