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Priority of use of multiple Ethernet Network Adapters?
How to instruct Win98xE to (if present) preferably use an external wireless USB-based Ethernet Network Adapter rather then an internal wired PCI-based Ethernet Network Adapter? It seems to be trying invainly to use the PCI-adapter even if there is no Ethernet-cable plugged in there. The computer uses the USB-adapter just fine after the PCI-adapter was physically removed. I found msKB # 894564: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894564/, that shows how to change the binding order and how to set 'InterfaceMetric' on some WinNT versions, but i can't locate how this should be done under Win98SE. -- Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion. Please followup in the newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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Priority of use of multiple Ethernet Network Adapters?
"... et al." wrote in message
... How to instruct Win98xE to (if present) preferably use an external wireless USB-based Ethernet Network Adapter rather then an internal wired PCI-based Ethernet Network Adapter? Can you disable Ethernet in the BIOS? In most PCs this would not also disable any USB device that happened to be Ethernet. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Priority of use of multiple Ethernet Network Adapters?
Don Phillipson wrote:
"... et al." wrote: How to instruct Win98xE to (if present) preferably use an external wireless USB-based Ethernet Network Adapter rather then an internal wired PCI-based Ethernet Network Adapter? Can you disable Ethernet in the BIOS? In most PCs this would not also disable any USB device that happened to be Ethernet. Just to make sure, i checked the BIOS-options on two different PCs here with non-integrated Ethernet Adapters, and don't see anything to disable Ethernet. I think it sounds like an option you would have in the BIOS if the Ethernet Adapter was integrated on the motherboard, (that and_or a jumper to disable the Adapter,) but the internal Ethernet Adapter in the example above is on a daughtercard. The daughtercard was physically removed to get the USB-connected Adapter to be used. Now i've read on one of the 'networking'-websites that there could be a problem with multiple Ethernet Adapters under Win98xE because of running out of IRQ's, and to disable for example a COM-port to free one up. I don't know how that situation were here. I just tried to help an acquaintance with this problem over the phone so i didn't see things for myself, but after unbinding TCP/IP from the the internal adapter and rebooting didn't work, disabling the internal adapter in the device manager and rebooting didn't work, finally tried removing the card and that worked. Seemed a drastic measure, but at least it worked. Thanks for the suggestion anyway Don. -- Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion. Please followup in the newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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