Hello,
I am totally frustrated over this problem. I have read a dozen posts about
it with no luck. For starters:
1) I have my Tap adapter enabled. I tried disabling and re-enabling. No
luck.
2) My tap Adapter *does* show up on Network Connections, however, ipconfig
*does not* show any tap adapters at all. OpenVpn --show-net *does not* show
any Tap devices either.
2.1) Device manager shows it as "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8", it is *not* hidden
and says it is working correctly. Characteristics is 0x81 in registry.
2.2) I have two additional Tap Adapters that got installed with openVpn:
"TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" and
"TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - Minipuerto del administrador de paquetes". These
last two however, show up as hidden.
3) Of course I did try uninstalling and reinstalling at least 5 times the
whole OpenVPN package, including the tap adapter, making sure every trace of
it gets completely deleted from the registry before reinstalling.
3.1) I am using version 2.0.2 downloaded 2 weeks ago from
http://openvpn.net/download.html
4) Firewall is of course OFF. No other personal firewalls are installed.
5) I have no antivirus Software installed at all, so no other firewalls
could be messing with it.
6) I am on a Dial Up connection to the internet.