Bigfoot killer network driving me nuts, any help appreciated

NutterzUK

NutterzUK

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Hi,

So, I bought a new G1 sniper motherboard, which is great, but it comes with this apparently great bigfoot killer network adapter ( Or perhaps... network killer adapter ).

First thing I find, is without the drivers from the CD, no network. Ok, no problem, I install everything on the motherboard CD.

Then I find, it comes up with two messages when I boot up.
"Your LSP is mapped incorrectly, would you like to remap it"

And another one asking me to do a bandwidth test.

So, I click yes, and let it do its tests. I don't know what LSP is.

Then, I open eclipse, and my emulator says it cannot initialise a loop back connection. This drives me mad, I system restore, it seems to fix it.

Now, i've spent a LONG time working on this, and I find the fix is to type into cmd:

netsh winsock reset

Then reboot, and when it asks about remapping my LSP click NO
Then it works, but continues to ask me each and every time I boot up my PC.
If I click yes, then suddenly my android emulators for my project stop working, with the message:
"Failed to initialize Monitor Thread: Unable to establish loopback connection"

Any ideas why it's causing me this much trouble?
Is there an easy way to make it just let me connect like any other adapter without all this nonsense?
I tried uninstalling the utility, it took the drivers with it... and so the network.
 
Personally I would disable the NIC at BIOS level and install a real NIC. Cheap Intel PCI one will be 26161671x better than the balls that is a snakeoil Bigfoot Network product.
 
LSP = Layered Service Provider. It is a component of the Winsock sockets stack in Windows. Sounds like the drivers for this card also consist of a LSP driver that hooks itself into your Winsock API. Nasty.

You can use Sysinternals Autoruns as a means to view LSPs (Network Providers tab).
 
Some really informative posts, thanks!
You guys really made my day.


This, fixed the problem:
dewi said:
Have you tried downloading the latest drivers from http://www.killergaming.com?
Click to expand...

This will make sure it won't come back.
PistolPete said:
It takes control of the network stake to provide (apparently) better features.
Grab an Intel Pro/1000 and be done with it.
Click to expand...

This educated me
NathanE said:
LSP = Layered Service Provider. It is a component of the Winsock sockets stack in Windows. Sounds like the drivers for this card also consist of a LSP driver that hooks itself into your Winsock API. Nasty.

You can use Sysinternals Autoruns as a means to view LSPs (Network Providers tab).
Click to expand...

Thanks also Sin Chase, that helps with my decision.

Updating the drivers ( Which said it also flashed / updated firmware ) fixed the problem for now. I thought it was meant to be a good thing about the motherboard, but it's been a bit of a nightmare so far.

Thanks
 
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