HP 8510 Laptop - auto disable wireless
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Hi all
We have a rogue HP Laptop in the office here and it has an annoying setting that i can't figure out how to turn off.
When you plug a wired network cable into the network socket, it auto disables the wireless adapter, taking out the user's internet connection with it. The user connects their network cable to access a local network that HAS to be kept off the domain for security reasons. Why does it keep disabling their wireless adapter and how the hell do i turn it off??
Cheers all
We have a rogue HP Laptop in the office here and it has an annoying setting that i can't figure out how to turn off.
When you plug a wired network cable into the network socket, it auto disables the wireless adapter, taking out the user's internet connection with it. The user connects their network cable to access a local network that HAS to be kept off the domain for security reasons. Why does it keep disabling their wireless adapter and how the hell do i turn it off??
Cheers all
If it's the same thing, my ThinkPad does this - It's nothing to do with the laptop itself, it's a Windows hardware profile thing.
The profile changes when using the cable connection and the wireless adaptor is disabled in that profile.
(This is for Windows XP, no idea if Vista is the same).
The profile changes when using the cable connection and the wireless adaptor is disabled in that profile.
(This is for Windows XP, no idea if Vista is the same).
Deva Link said:
If it's the same thing, my ThinkPad does this - It's nothing to do with the laptop itself, it's a Windows hardware profile thing.
The profile changes when using the cable connection and the wireless adaptor is disabled in that profile.
(This is for Windows XP, no idea if Vista is the same).
I don't think it's the same thing. I've turned off the option in Vista to allow the wireless device to be switched off when a cable is inserted (vista power management in Device Manager), but the HP software still takes over and disables the device anyway!!The profile changes when using the cable connection and the wireless adaptor is disabled in that profile.
(This is for Windows XP, no idea if Vista is the same).
Well OK lets get the stock answer out of the way - if the wired lan needs to be kept separate then it might a good idea not to connect to them both at the same time..
OK that said what do you mean that its disabled, is it literaly showing as disconnected or does it just stop working. If the latter, its almost certainly a metric issue with the two interfaces - the wireless interface would need a lower metric than the cable if you wanted to keep using that one as your default route. By default it would be the opposite though, since the wireless is slower it gets a higher metric. In the connection properties unders tcp/ip, advanced you can manually change the metric - give the wireless 0 and the wired 10 or something.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299540
The other way is not to assign a default gateway on the wired network.
Hope this is somewhere near the mark.
OK that said what do you mean that its disabled, is it literaly showing as disconnected or does it just stop working. If the latter, its almost certainly a metric issue with the two interfaces - the wireless interface would need a lower metric than the cable if you wanted to keep using that one as your default route. By default it would be the opposite though, since the wireless is slower it gets a higher metric. In the connection properties unders tcp/ip, advanced you can manually change the metric - give the wireless 0 and the wired 10 or something.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299540
The other way is not to assign a default gateway on the wired network.
Hope this is somewhere near the mark.
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