OpenVPN, install a TAP adapter
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When I try to connect to my work VPN using OpenVPN, the connection fails with the message:
All TAP-Win32 adapters on this system are currently in use.
Many sources suggest to look in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections an enable the TAP adapter, but when I look there, there is none. Now I've run addtap.bat
which is provided with OpenVPN, but I still don't get to see any TAP adapter, and logging in in VPN still fails. The output of addtap.bat is
C:\Windows\system32>"C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenVPN\bin\tapinstall.exe" install
"C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenVPN\driver\OemWin2k.inf" tap0801
Device node created. Install is complete when drivers are updated...
Updating drivers for tap0801 from C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenVPN\driver\OemWin2k
.inf.
Drivers updated successfully.
I've Run As Administrator both the setup of OpenVPN and addtap.bat
.
I've run deltapall.bat
to remove any (maybe hidden) adapters. It said it removed three of them, after which I ran addtap.bat
again to try to create another one.
I also run OpenVPN itself as administrator. What's wrong?
Running Windows 7 Home Premium on a HP Pavilion dv7 4050ed. It has worked before, but I recently had to reinstall my laptop, for which I used the restore disks I created when I just got it. Everything else seems to work fine.
== UPDATE ==
The TAP adapter is found in Device Manager, but apparently it is disabled because it is incompatible with Windows 7 64bit. I've deïnstalled OpenVPNGui, downloaded a version that should be 64bit compatible, and installed that. Still no cigar. Then I found a tip to install OpenVPN (version 9) after installing OpenVPNGui, because that installs OpenVPN version 8. Now I got a v9 TAP driver in Device Manager, but it still doesn't work and shows up in device manager with an exclamation mark, and not at all in my network devices.
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