trouble with IPCONFIG...showw wireless but not wired

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14 Feb 2009 4:14 PM

jeanluc

I have a company PC that is behaving very strangely. It is XP-SP2.

When I am not connected to the internet via an ethernet cable,
IPCONFIG does not show my "Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection
connection".

I need the ethernet card's physical address to run software. The
license is tied to the physical address of the ethernet card.

I have heard of this problem in LINUX but not with windows.

Is there anyway to "turn on" the ethernet card so that it shows up in
IPCONFIG?

thanks!

15 Feb 2009 1:43 AM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Maybe this can Help, http://www.ezlan.net/ebug.html
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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"jeanluc" <jeanluc_picard***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a company PC that is behaving very strangely. It is XP-SP2.
>
> When I am not connected to the internet via an ethernet cable,
> IPCONFIG does not show my "Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection
> connection".
>
> I need the ethernet card's physical address to run software. The
> license is tied to the physical address of the ethernet card.
>
> I have heard of this problem in LINUX but not with windows.
>
> Is there anyway to "turn on" the ethernet card so that it shows up in
> IPCONFIG?
>
> thanks!