Error Message When You Try to Set an IP Address on a Network Adapter The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
This article was previously published under Q269155 SYMPTOMS When you trying to set the IP address on a network adapter, you may receive the following error message: The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter. Name of adapter is hidden from the network and Dial-up Connections folder because it is not physically in the computer or is a legacy adapter that is not working. If the same address is assigned to both adapters and they become active, only one of them will use this address. This may result in incorrect system configuration. Do you want to enter a different IP address for this adapter in the list of IP addresses in the advanced dialog box? Where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the IP address that you are trying to set and Name of adapter is the name of the network adapter that is present in the registry but hidden in Device Manager. If you click Yes, you see the TCP/IP properties where you can change the IP address to something different for the currently showing network adapter in Device Manager. If you click No, the IP address is assigned to the network adapter. Note that if you click No, the selected network adapter in Device Manager and the ghosted network adapter have the same IP address. In most cases, this does not cause any problems because the driver is disabled. CAUSE A network adapter with the same IP address is in the registry but is hidden in Device Manager. This can occur when you move a network card from one PCI slot to another PCI slot. RESOLUTION To resolve this problem, uninstall the ghosted network adapter from the registry: Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER. Click View, and then click Show Hidden Devices. Expand the Network Adapters tree. Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 14, 2003 5:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ghost devices after a BMR of Windows2000 >Anyone run into similar situations like this wiht BMR to different hardware? We ended up searching the >registry for the adapter string and deleteing all those keys. Not pretty, but it worked. Hi Bill, Are you using Intel Pro1000 NIC's in the server(s)? If so, installing the ProSet 2 utilitity cleared this up for us. It will show the "old" adapter and allow you to remove it gracefully. We saw the same issue, but it was on a different backup product (not TSM). If you are not using Intel NIC's, then maybe a similar utility exists for yours? (i.e. I know Broadcom has a util as well that looks almost identical to Intel's) HTH Chris Murphy IT Network Analyst Idaho Dept. of Lands Office: (208) 334-0293
