I'm hoping someone has a suggestion, since all the computer guru's I talk to have no ideas. I have Win2000 pro, and it's worked like a charm until recently. I noticed that i was having issues with shutting down the pc, it would just hang and hang. I haven't installed any new hardware to my computer other than a video card which works fine. But upon stumbling into device manager as part of an investigation, I noticed that i had 5-6 of these WAN Miniport's listed under network adapters. To top it off, when i uninstalled/reinstalled my video card drivers thinking that was the issue, i was getting prompted to install a pci device. The only pci device i have on my pc is the NIC card i put it when i first bought the pc, and there is no issue with it. I have onboard LAN and MODEM on this motherboard, but I use the onboard LAN to netbeui over to my second pc, the pci NIC is for the internet. Never had any issues in months, but all of a sudden these WAN miniports are sitting there saying they are not working properly (not that i installed the things in the first place). There are no drivers to install off of the Win2K cd, or on my motherboard software. If i disable the devices, which it does allow me to do, the pc still hangs when shutting down. If i try to remove those WAN miniports, it says that they are needed to boot the machine. I have thoroughly gone through my BIOS and there is no reference to these WAN ports anywhere, and have no idea how they got there in the first place. The WAN miniports i have currently listed in device manager/network adapters are:

WAN Miniport (IP)
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (Netbeui, Dial Out)

There is also a "DIRECT PARALLEL" listed under network adapters as well, which was never there before.

All the above devices come back as "code 22", but i'll be damned if i can find any reference to this. One suggestion i had was to backup the registry, then remove all registry entries referring to WAN (I searched the registry and found many things pointing to WAN's. I'm fairly comfortable with editing the registry). I have a very funny feeling that these WAN miniports are causing my shutdown issues, since those as well as my other network adapters are all sharing IRQ 11. I have tried reinstalling Win2K just for kicks, but that didn't help. Running the service paks doesn't help. The variable here is that since these WAN miniports showed up I have had shutdown issues with the pc. Only thing that has changed was the installation of the video card, in which to troubleshoot, i removed the card altogether, booted up, removed all installed software that had any relation to the video card, rebooted and no problems. Shutdown, put the card back in, booted up fine, installed the drivers and everything worked fine for about 10 min, until i decided to reboot. The pc hung, and when it finally did reboot (with the help of the reset button), it was searching for a pci device, and these WAN Miniports were discovered. I know they weren't there before, but the video card (G-Force 2 Titanium) has nothing to do with network adapters, and the video card itself is working fine with no conflicts whatsoever with the pc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Richard

Are you using AOL? It is normal in W2k for everything to share an IRQ. Usually it is 11. It's by design.

Nope, AOL is for kids! Just don't know where the WAN miniports came from, or how to rid the system of them, other than editing the registry!

I'm having the same problem, have tried to uninstall them many times. Now it has reached the point that not only are no packets coming, but I can't even create a new LAN connection (My old one is iexplicably deleted). Tried physically taking the network card otu adn putting it back in...no luck. Anybody?

I have just discovered the same problem. I am running a win2000 pro pc on a LAN with a netgear router, never having any problems with the network other than the occasional burp that is associated with networks. I have tried removing them from the hardware manager as well, and cannot determine what, where or how it came into effect. But I am going to check out the IRQ 11 and see what is there, if anyone can figure it out, would be nice to know what the solution is.

Yeah, i have win2k and some xp boxes... i was having the same issue with the wan ports and i also am having problems with instances of old nic cards still hidden with ip's bound to them. i cannot even delete the old nics from device manager. Strange thing is, the nics are the same nics but i swapped motherboards and now they list as 3com... #2, and when i program ips i get the message that they will conflict with other hidden nics if they become active... How do i remove the old nic references?

the very same damn problem happens for me,and I am cursing WAN MINIport (IP) #2 time after time!
anybody discovered the rosseta stone?

Hi everybody,
seems you all suffer from WAN Miniport (IP) #2? huh?
well,
I already overcame on it,
I think you can do too,
just needs some registry edition:

go to this key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\Descriptions

for WAN minport there you'll see values of "1 2" the junk inside of it should be edited to look like this:
0000 31 00 00 00 00 00 1.....

but beside the things above you'll see 0008, so only remove extra dots from the end, untill you get at the above config.
now the value is just 1,

another this is a KEY that must be deleted,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0006
you primary WAN IP is 0005 and this one is extra, delete it,
and reboot your box

now easily you can remove the confilct in device manager,
but I recommend before that uninstall all TCP/IP protocols, File and print sharing and ...
and then reinstall them!

that's all!
good work!
bye

Hi angel,

I am not sure I understand what I am supposed to wind up with. It lookks like i am eliminating two keys or am I editing them to read what???

looks like you may have the answer. I just don't understand it. I am not that familiar with editing the registry and anything you can do to simplify your explanation would be greatly appreciated. Of course I'll back it up before I do anything.

Can you tell me which keys to eliminete completly and which to add?

Thanks very much
Larry

Larry,

I followed angels instructions and it worked well. To comment the steps:
On the first given key just remove the dots.
Secondly remove the whole folder named ".../0006".
then reboot and deinstall the Adapter...

Cyberpunk

Angel: you're the greatest....

these miniports & direct parallel originate from MacAfee fire wall.
I have followed their removal advice but with no luck?

Thanks angel and Cyberpunk. I waable to uninztall the adapter fine but I thought this would take care of the dsialr error 720 PPP because I can now unintall adapter, modem , tcp/ip. Unfortunately, uninstalling and reinstalling all of that still leaves me unable to connect to my ISP but I'm very gla that's fixed. Thanks. Larry

Angel,
Just curious, but one of my customer's was unable to remove the Wan Miniport adapters in W2K in either safemode or normal mode. Kinda scratchin my head here. Any further advice? Please feel free to email me.

thanks much!

bill

Amazing how much better everything works when he's logged in specifically as administrator, as opposed to user with admin. rights. and am I correct in assuming that after removing all of those network protocals/svc's etc. that it'd be wise to reboot, then reinstall? I know assuming is dangerous, but why tempt the networking gods' fury? just to let you know that we were NOW able to get the garbage out of DM, however the NIC card was still locking up the system....since it's lan on motherboard, I was going to replace it anyway, but I was hoping to have resolved orig. prob. at hand.

angel, thank you for this nice bit of info...I'm letting my higher ups have fun with it.

best wishes,

bill

The WAN Miniports is Win2k built-in devices for Dial-Up connections.

They are there even if you do not install (but they are hidden). You can see them if you tick "Show Hidden Devices" under Device Manager of Win2K.

They are just like Win98's Dial-Up Adapters under Device Manager.