My laptop can't connect to the net. I so far has re-installed all the drivers and pc card software as well as tcp/ip. I tried ipconfig and it come back with ip configuration failed to initialise winsock. Suggestions from the experts always appreciated so I can get this laptop working right again
Thanks

Perhaps this will help:

How to determine and recover from Winsock2 corruption



sorry: missed the header i.e. 98 se
link was Re: XP
o well


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Found this test:

Typing ‘ipconfig’ at a command prompt gives “IP Configuration Failed to initialize Winsock.”

Fix:

Please have your Windows 98 installation disk ready

1. At the run command dialog box (Start->Run…) type sfc to open the System File Checker utility.
2. Select the ‘Extract one file from the installation disk’ option.
3. In the edit box, type ‘C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mswsock.dll’
4. Insert your Windows 98 Installation disk into your CD-ROM drive (this example uses drive D).
5. Click ‘start’ on the SFC dialog.
6. In the ‘Restore from:’ edit box, type ‘D:\Win98’ (substituting your CD-ROM drive letter for ‘D’ if yours differs).
7. Click ‘OK’.
8. Click ‘Skip’.
9. After the file has been successfully extracted, repeat steps 3 through 8 but instead of typing ‘C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mswsock.dll’ in step 3, type ‘C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ws2help.dll’.
10. Reboot.
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Also see mention of spyware issues:

you may have spyware
Such errors are often caused by spyware - download AdAware from
www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.

also run the LSPFix from here
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

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Also this MS Knowledge Base search:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/...ock+98&x=0&y=0