Ipconfig fails in XP

[vmikhelson]

Originally Posted by TheWickerMan

When you say you tried reinstalling, did you go to IBM's site and download the newest ethernet drivers for your laptop? The other option is that there could be something malicious lurking in your machine. Have you tried a virus scan lately?

Sure I did. All latest and greatest from Lenovo/IBM is applied. Antivirus runs from the moment machine was first configured. I did analyze all processes running and did not find anything suspicious. I did run a couple of anti-rootkit scanners, and did not fetch anything either.