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Windows 95 Ne2000.sys Driver Does Not Support LAA

Article ID: 169984

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q169984

SYMPTOMS

The Ne2000.sys driver file included with Windows 95 does not support Locally Administered Addresses (LAA).

RESOLUTION

STATUS

This problem no longer occurs in Windows 98. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows.

MORE INFORMATION

An LAA is set as a data string in the following registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Net\000<x>\ NetworkAddress

where <x> is the number of the network adapter.

Keywords: kbenv kbnetwork kbprb KB169984