Priority of use of multiple Ethernet Network Adapters?

[... 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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[Don Phillipson]

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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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[... et al.]

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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