Network adapter visible twice in network setup

[Simon Elliott]

Hi

I've installed a DLINK wireless network card in my notebook PC which
runs W98SE. Looking at control panel->system, it looks fine. The
notebook is networked as part of a workgroup and all works as expected.

But if I look at control panel->network, I see two instances of the
network card, each with its own instance of TCP/IP. If I remove one, it
gets reinstalled at the next reboot, and all my wireless settings are
lost.

Can anyone suggest why this is happening?
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Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk

[Mark Adams]

My advice: consider yourself lucky and ignore it. See my subject "Wifi
card blows out network" above.

Of course, if you have trouble with it everytime you reboot, that may be
different.

Simon Elliott wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've installed a DLINK wireless network card in my notebook PC which
> runs W98SE. Looking at control panel->system, it looks fine. The
> notebook is networked as part of a workgroup and all works as expected.
>
> But if I look at control panel->network, I see two instances of the
> network card, each with its own instance of TCP/IP. If I remove one, it
> gets reinstalled at the next reboot, and all my wireless settings are
> lost.
>
> Can anyone suggest why this is happening?

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[Simon Elliott]

On 10/06/2004, Mark Adams wrote:
> My advice: consider yourself lucky and ignore it. See my subject
> "Wifi card blows out network" above.

Did you install the drivers before you inserted the card? I've foudn
that helps with both PC-CARD and USB. Otherwise windows detects the new
hardware, installs the wrong driver, and it can be tricky to recover
from this.

> Of course, if you have trouble with it everytime you reboot, that may
> be different.

It all works flawlessly most of the time. I have both TCP/IP entries in
the network control panel applet set to DHCP.

When I first installed the 802.11g card, I had an Apollo 100Mbit
ethernet PCMCIA card in the other slot. I wanted to be able to choose
to connect via ehternet or wireless. However this didn't work well at
all. The wireless conenction was slow and buggy, and there was a
constant chirping / clicking noise from the notebook's speakers.

I removed the ethernet card and suddenly the wireless card was
reliable.

Doesn't say much for the plug'n'play capabilities of PC-CARD, though.
--
Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk

[Mark Adams]

Simon Elliott wrote:
> On 10/06/2004, Mark Adams wrote:
>
>>My advice: consider yourself lucky and ignore it. See my subject
>>"Wifi card blows out network" above.
>
>
> Did you install the drivers before you inserted the card? I've foudn
> that helps with both PC-CARD and USB. Otherwise windows detects the new
> hardware, installs the wrong driver, and it can be tricky to recover
> from this.

Nope. I did it according to manufacturer's instructions.

>>Of course, if you have trouble with it everytime you reboot, that may
>>be different.
>
>
> It all works flawlessly most of the time. I have both TCP/IP entries in
> the network control panel applet set to DHCP.
>
> When I first installed the 802.11g card, I had an Apollo 100Mbit
> ethernet PCMCIA card in the other slot. I wanted to be able to choose
> to connect via ehternet or wireless. However this didn't work well at
> all. The wireless conenction was slow and buggy, and there was a
> constant chirping / clicking noise from the notebook's speakers.
>
> I removed the ethernet card and suddenly the wireless card was
> reliable.
>
> Doesn't say much for the plug'n'play capabilities of PC-CARD, though.

Plug-and-play has had problems from the getgo, at least with Win9x.
WinXP seems better.

Thanks.
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Mark E. Adams, 2004 -- drop the "dot" to email me.

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