appened a couple days ago... I woke up one morning to find that my wireless/local internet connections were not working.

dware under device manager, I saw that there was a little yellow exclamation mark beside 'WAN Miniport (IP)'. Updating t
hat it was either 'corrupted or missing'.
s happened a couple times before with other random drivers mysteriously vanishing from my files... but those were usuall
d be downloaded and reinstalled again... Right now Im stuck without internet on my only computer and have been visiting
checking my email etc.... but this is a serious drawback and inconvenience for me.
ave a copy of Windows to reinstall this driver, and cant connect to the internet in any way (to repair the missing driver thr
here a way to download this driver via another source? I googled 'WAN Miniport (IP)' and came up with various download s
Microsoft windows update page...
nXPpro SP2, and no... system restore did not manage to fix this driver... Warranty has expired, so sending it for repairs is
or a 3-year-old laptop.
now useless, or is there a way to save it?
help you can provide on this matter.

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Re: WAN Miniport (IP)?

Try the MFG web site for your drivers. Just download them to a USB memory stick and install from

If the port has failed you can always go with a USB to ethernet adapter or a PCMCI card.
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06-11-2008, 05:48 PM #3 (permalink)

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Monkeymod At the library/else save the specific driver in a flash
memory stick and then install it at home.
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Notebook Consultant Quote:

Originally Posted by blue68f100

Try the MFG web site for your drivers. Just download
them to a USB memory stick and install from there.

If the port has failed you can always go with a USB to

ethernet adapter or a PCMCI card.
Thanks for the replies; did you mean the manufacturer's
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driver is required to boot windows, I am unable to uninstall
it for a clean re-install.
Is there a particular site that contains this one driver? Ive
included a screenshot in my original post.
Thanks again for any help.
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06-12-2008, 12:54 AM #5 (permalink)

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Monkeymod I think this has to do with AOL, the wan miniport services.

Do this; Start, Run, services.msc

And make sure that the (C:\WINDOWS\wanmpsvc.exe) is

started.
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I tried doing what you suggested but couldnt find the
specified service... Actually, I dont think I even have AOL.
Im just about ready to give up on this... but then again, I
cant afford to get myself another laptop anytime soon. Its
strange because Ive never seen this driver before until
now...
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Monkeymod Have you tried to remove AOL with the add/remove
programs application?
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Have you tried booting into safe mode, then un-install and
re-install the drives. I have had a few programs that safe
mode was the only way to get rid of them.
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nix Re: WAN Miniport (IP)?

Notebook Consultant Well, Safe Mode helped me fix the driver problem so it
seems nothing is missing or corrupted... however, Im still
unable to connect to the internet via my wireless network.
Im not sure, but it may have something to do with
windows firewall, which seems not to work anymore...
maybe my network card is dead or something.
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deftone911 Re: WAN Miniport (IP)?

Newbie I experienced this exact same problem last night when I
did a repair installation of XP on my eee PC. I was
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SP3 added the WAN miniport entry in device manager and
now I cannot see any networks with my wireless card even
though I keep getting a balloon popup saying "One or
more Wireless networks detected"..but when I open the
connection manager no networks appear..

How do I fix the wan miniport driver so I can get it to

work? It sounds like removing it doesn't work and I've
tried disabling it and that does nothing to fix the problem.