mike wilson wrote: > I have a home wireless network. > > My desktop machine has a network card and USB wireless adaptor, the > laptop has a modem and PCMCIA wireless card. On the desktop, it > always tries to use the network card unless I disable it in the > control panel, even if I tell the OS to use wireless. The laptop > will try to use the wireless card unless I disable it in control > panel, even if it is not plugged in.
What version of Windows is that? It sounds like a Windows or driver problem. Or maybe your hibernating instead of shutting down or something like that. Something you could try is to force renewal of the DHCP client settings. Open a "command window" (DOS box) and type in the following commands: ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew Some versions of ipconfig on some versions of windows want you to use ipconfig /release_all ipconfig /renew_all Either way, it should "churn" the network drivers and hopefully they'll sort themselves out. If that works, then create a file in your C:\ directory called NetStart.cmd and use notepad or something to put those two lines in it. Then add a new shortcut in your Start | All Programs | Startup menu with the following in the "Type the location of the item" text box: cmd.exe /c "C:\NetStart.cmd" That'll run those two commands each time you restart Windows, so hopefully your network connections will sort themselves out each time you restart Windows. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
