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Jan_Skýpala
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Calling for help - network connections disappear due to Workstation installation

Hello,

I have a following problem caused by VMWare Workstation setup: I was running version 6.0 and wanted to upgrade to version 6.5. I have ran the setup, it asked me that it must unistall the version 6.0 first, so I allowed it to do so. This took really long (I mean something like 10 hours) when I decided to stop the process and because there was no other way to stop it, I have restarted the PC. From that moment I don't have any network adapters on my PC. The only ones that I have are VMware virtual networks adapters. I should have 3 more - LAN, WLAN and Cisco VPN virtual adapter, but they are all gone.

I can see all of them (including LAN, WLAN and Cisco) in the device manager, but I cannot see them in Network Connections and also using ipconfig in cmd.exe I get results only for VMware adapters. The network does not work anymore. OS is Windows XP Professional.

I have (succesfully after the reboot) tried to unistall Workstation, istall the new version, uninstall it, install back the old one, but it did not help.

Any help for this? I don't want to re-install my PC...

Thanks. Take care, Jan

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jokke
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Try executing this in VMware Workstation directory;

"vnetlib -- uninstall adapters"

Then reboot and see if your network devices are visible.

Then maybe also try "vnetlib -- install devices" after the reboot.

Joakim

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Jan_Skýpala
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Thank you for your advice, I have tried, but it did not help... I'm still in the same situation, I can see the adapters in the Device Manager, but I cannot see them in Network Connections and they do not report with ipconfig.

If anybody has any other idea, please let me know.

Thank you. Take care, Jan

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