Did you mean the registry hack at http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBE/Tip2400/rh2444.htm? I just tried that, to no avail.
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Somewhere in the Network configuration for the USB connection in Win2000 should be an option to detect the link state.
Can't remember exactly where this is in 2000 or what it says, but uncheck it so that 2000 always thinks the link is up.
I've had problems like this before where Windows thinks the link is down when it is fine in reality