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LAN Card Keeps Taking Over - Help a cute Girl!Hey! My desktop is set up with a wireless Linksys adapter. Everything works
fine. The Local Area Network connection icon for a wired connection is always trying to request an IP address based. There is no lan cable plugged into it. I went into device manager to disable the Intel (R) PRO/100 VE Network adapter. When I reboot, it's enabled again. I tried to uninstall the driver. When I reboot, the driver is magically reinstalled. Do I have to get someone to open the pc, and pull the card out, or is there another way to stop this? Thanks! Tammie On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:27:01 -0800, GW <G*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hey! My desktop is set up with a wireless Linksys adapter. Everything works Tammie,>fine. The Local Area Network connection icon for a wired connection is >always trying to request an IP address based. There is no lan cable plugged >into it. I went into device manager to disable the Intel (R) PRO/100 VE >Network adapter. When I reboot, it's enabled again. I tried to uninstall >the driver. When I reboot, the driver is magically reinstalled. Do I have >to get someone to open the pc, and pull the card out, or is there another way >to stop this? > >Thanks! > >Tammie Why do you want the Ethernet connection disabled? Windows is designed to support 2 or more active LAN connections. <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/09/automatic-metrics-and-ability-to-roam.html> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/09/automatic-metrics-and-ability-to-roam.html -- Cheers, Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking] http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/ Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience. My email is AT DOT actual address pchuck mvps org. GW <G*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hey! My desktop is set up with a wireless Linksys adapter. Trying to ignore for the moment that your subject line sets the > Everything works fine. The Local Area Network connection icon for a > wired connection is always trying to request an IP address based. > There is no lan cable plugged into it. I went into device manager to > disable the Intel (R) PRO/100 VE Network adapter. When I reboot, > it's enabled again. I tried to uninstall the driver. When I reboot, > the driver is magically reinstalled. Do I have to get someone to > open the pc, and pull the card out, or is there another way to stop > this? > > Thanks! > > Tammie gender-equality movement back a number of years..... a) your disconnected Ethernet card shouldn't be trying to get an IP address - what are the exact symptoms, please? b) what is the exact OS you're using? c) why would you want to uninstall a perfectly useful Ethernet adapter? Presuming you're on WinXP, it should actually let you use both at once,and pick the faster connection. Thanks! I am networked wirelessly and will not be runing cable to this
desktop. XP Home SP2. Symptoms: in the package tray, the little icon showing two little computer screens for the local area connection, when I placed my mouse poiner over, said trying to aquire IP address. I just don't need the overhead. Thanks! Show quote "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: > GW <G*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > Hey! My desktop is set up with a wireless Linksys adapter. > > Everything works fine. The Local Area Network connection icon for a > > wired connection is always trying to request an IP address based. > > There is no lan cable plugged into it. I went into device manager to > > disable the Intel (R) PRO/100 VE Network adapter. When I reboot, > > it's enabled again. I tried to uninstall the driver. When I reboot, > > the driver is magically reinstalled. Do I have to get someone to > > open the pc, and pull the card out, or is there another way to stop > > this? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Tammie > > Trying to ignore for the moment that your subject line sets the > gender-equality movement back a number of years..... > > a) your disconnected Ethernet card shouldn't be trying to get an IP > address - what are the exact symptoms, please? > > b) what is the exact OS you're using? > > c) why would you want to uninstall a perfectly useful Ethernet adapter? > Presuming you're on WinXP, it should actually let you use both at once,and > pick the faster connection. > > > GW <G*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Thanks! I am networked wirelessly and will not be runing cable to Go to control panel | network connections, change to Details view, and look > this desktop. XP Home SP2. Symptoms: in the package tray, the > little icon showing two little computer screens for the local area > connection, when I placed my mouse poiner over, said trying to aquire > IP address. > > I just don't need the overhead. at the status. If nothing's plugged in, it should say "Network cable disconnected." And hence, it shouldn't be trying to get an IP address. Honest. However, since I'm quite sure you're not making this up to get attention - a) You can right-click on Local Area Connection & pick Disable, or disable the device in Device Manager. b) Note that if you're using a computer preinstalled with a lot of crap (such as Dell Dimensions & other home PC models tend to have on them) you probably have some additional network management software on this computer that's doing this - I always uninstall that stuff & use the built-in Windows networking tools to manage wired/wireless networking. HTH. Show quote > > Thanks! > > "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: > >> GW <G*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >>> Hey! My desktop is set up with a wireless Linksys adapter. >>> Everything works fine. The Local Area Network connection icon for a >>> wired connection is always trying to request an IP address based. >>> There is no lan cable plugged into it. I went into device manager >>> to disable the Intel (R) PRO/100 VE Network adapter. When I reboot, >>> it's enabled again. I tried to uninstall the driver. When I >>> reboot, the driver is magically reinstalled. Do I have to get >>> someone to open the pc, and pull the card out, or is there another >>> way to stop this? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Tammie >> >> Trying to ignore for the moment that your subject line sets the >> gender-equality movement back a number of years..... >> >> a) your disconnected Ethernet card shouldn't be trying to get an IP >> address - what are the exact symptoms, please? >> >> b) what is the exact OS you're using? >> >> c) why would you want to uninstall a perfectly useful Ethernet >> adapter? Presuming you're on WinXP, it should actually let you use >> both at once,and pick the faster connection. Hi
You have to leave the NIC installed correctly and disable it by right clicking in the device manger and choose disable. If you take away the drivers then in the next boot the system finds New Hardware and since the drivers to your card are available through Windows it installs them automatically. Otherwise, if it bothers you so much, take out the card, or disable it in the BIOS if it is an On board card. Jack (MVP-Networking). Show quote "GW" <G*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:988ADC84-EE46-4716-A267-6724094FA0BD@microsoft.com... > Hey! My desktop is set up with a wireless Linksys adapter. Everything > works > fine. The Local Area Network connection icon for a wired connection is > always trying to request an IP address based. There is no lan cable > plugged > into it. I went into device manager to disable the Intel (R) PRO/100 VE > Network adapter. When I reboot, it's enabled again. I tried to uninstall > the driver. When I reboot, the driver is magically reinstalled. Do I > have > to get someone to open the pc, and pull the card out, or is there another > way > to stop this? > > Thanks! > > Tammie  |
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