Adapter in there. Next, go to My Computer, then Dial-Up Networking. Go to the Server Types tab. Make sure you uncheck everything else. Some older Packard Bell systems have a bad copy of Windows 95 on it.
Theese systems have major problems with DNS lookups.
Go to the Start Menu, pick Find, the Files Or Folders. They should be between 21K and 26K. Any other winsock.dll files that don't match these descriptions may be causing problems.