Saturday, 22 November 2008

Dell D630 Problem - Cannot enable LAN Card - Fixed

I normally connect my laptop to my home network via wireless on a Belkin Router (F1PI241EGau) from iiNet. Tonight, however, I tried to connect via a LAN port because it appears my router's wireless capability has been freezing every day with Smurf attacks - and I wanted to see the log before hard rebooting it. Rebooting has the unwanted effect of clearing out any diagnostic messages I might get right before the failure of wireless.

Problem was - I just couldn't enable the LAN adapter on my laptop - even through device manager. When I tried to enable it it would respond with a shocked "Connection Failed!" or "Windows could not enable your device" - and would show "Device is disabled (Code 22)". Nothing at all was showing up in the event log under Application/System categories - so the event log was about as useful as a screen door on a submarine in this situation.

I tried to disable some the Dell Quickset (f)utility and disabled power management to try to fix the problem. Dell has a lovely (for some) service that disables the network card when you are not on mains power called "NICCONFIGSVC" (C:\Program Files\Dell\QuickSet\NICCONFIGSVC.exe) - but still could not enable my laptop LAN card.

The simple fix was to uninstall the problematic network card and restarted. I now have a brand spanking new Local Area Network Adapter 3 which is fully functional and I can now proceed to diagnose the nasty Smurf DoS attacks.
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5 comments:

  1. Mr. Blue1 May 2009 at 22:46

    Thanks for the tip, I've been wondering about how to fix this for quite some time... now it works!

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  2. Anonymous8 June 2009 at 22:34

    Thank you so much! Frustrated googlers pay attention---simply follow his advice and restart. I worked on this problem for hours and nothing worked until I did this. Thanks!!!

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  3. Anonymous19 December 2009 at 10:30

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  4. Roland Waardenburg14 May 2011 at 17:37

    Way back in 2009 you talked about solving a code 22 error by uninstalling the network card on your dell. But how do you that? You just uninstall the driver?

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  5. Anonymous29 April 2014 at 18:43

    Nice and quite informative post. I really look forward to your other posts.

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