Wednesday, August 9, 2017
PPPoE Problem unavailable device missing
PPPoE Problem unavailable device missing
Last week I tried to make a new PPPoE connection to my campus. I did it before and everything went fine, but not last week. I couldnt do the dial and when I saw the dial-up icon this not-so-funny-message under the dial-up icon: unavailable - device missing. I went crazy for sometimes before I found this solution:
1. Download devcon.exe from some Microsoft sites
2. Open netrasa.inf in c:windowsinf (c:winntinf on win2k I guess)
3. Look for the section [Msft.NTx86]
4. In the DeviceID column, you can see the installable devices.
5. Run this command to install the WAN Miniport (PPTP):
devcon.exe install c:windowsinf etrasa.inf MS_PptpMiniport
6. Install the other devices similarly. (Probably you will need MS_L2tpMiniport, MS_PtiMiniport, MS_NdisWanIp, MS_PppoeMiniport additionally)
It worked. I didnt even bother to try to understand anything :P
Solution found at http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread18016.html
Available link for download
