Wireless Zero Config: The Dependency service or group failed to st

4 Sep 2006 4:57 AM

Mr. Calico

I am working on a computer whose wireless internet suddenly stopped working.
Upon investigation, I found that the Wireless Zero Configuration service
wasn't started. When trying to start the service manually in the CMC, I get
Error 1608. I have searched other articles and determined that I needed to
verify that other certain services were started.... of which, several
weren't. I started all of the necessary services:

â€¢ Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
â€¢ Network Connections (this service depends on RPC service)
â€¢ Plug and Play
â€¢ COM+ Event System (this service depends on RPC service)
â€¢ Remote Access Connection Manager (this service depends on Telephony
service)
â€¢ Telephony (this service depends on RPC and PnP service)

However, the problem persists. I went into Properties of the WZConfig
service and its dependencies listed were RPC and something called NDIS
Usermode I/O Protocol (what's that all about?) Either way, as far as I know,
I have started all necessary services and Wireless Zero Configuration will
still not start. To verify that it wasn't a hardware issue I put the
wireless card into my own PC and it worked fine. To verify it wasn't a
problem with his PCI slot I put it in another slot and the problem still
persists. There doesn't seem to be any working restore points on this
computer.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

4 Sep 2006 4:24 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Compare the services on your working computer and the "lame" one, and adjust
accordingly.
In General, you can debug the Network Settings of a computer by following
these steps.
Step One. Check the Network parameters in the Computer's Device Manager.
Make sure that the Network Card drivers are installed correctly; i.e. there
is No IRQ conflict, and No Ghost installation.
http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost
Step Two. Verify Basic network setting in the OS:
http://www.ezlan.net/Installing#verify.
If the above two Steps indicates that every thing looks good but
functionally it does not work.
Step Three. Check (and repair if necessary) the Socket Layers, Winsock, and
or refresh the TCP/IP Stack. http://www.ezlan.net/clean#refreshnet
Wireless Settings
My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Wireless, Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"Mr. Calico" <MrCal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am working on a computer whose wireless internet suddenly stopped
>working.
> Upon investigation, I found that the Wireless Zero Configuration service
> wasn't started. When trying to start the service manually in the CMC, I
> get
> Error 1608. I have searched other articles and determined that I needed
> to
> verify that other certain services were started.... of which, several
> weren't. I started all of the necessary services:
>
> . Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
> . Network Connections (this service depends on RPC service)
> . Plug and Play
> . COM+ Event System (this service depends on RPC service)
> . Remote Access Connection Manager (this service depends on Telephony
> service)
> . Telephony (this service depends on RPC and PnP service)
>
> However, the problem persists. I went into Properties of the WZConfig
> service and its dependencies listed were RPC and something called NDIS
> Usermode I/O Protocol (what's that all about?) Either way, as far as I
> know,
> I have started all necessary services and Wireless Zero Configuration will
> still not start. To verify that it wasn't a hardware issue I put the
> wireless card into my own PC and it worked fine. To verify it wasn't a
> problem with his PCI slot I put it in another slot and the problem still
> persists. There doesn't seem to be any working restore points on this
> computer.
>
> Any ideas? Thank you in advance.