Priority of use of multiple Ethernet Network Adapters?

[Guest ... et al.]

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.

 

 

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[Guest Don Phillipson]

Re: Priority of use of multiple Ethernet Network Adapters?

 

"... et al." <look@sig.bcause.this.is.invalid> wrote in message

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> 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.

 

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Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)

[Guest ... et al.]

Re: 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.

 

 

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