Installing WiFi card on laptop

I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has ethernet port.
Laptop is configured to connect to internet through LAN. When I install the
WiFi card with driver, will it create conflict with ethernet port? How can I
switch between wired and wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready
equipped with WiFi have a little switch to choose between the two. Is there
anything special I have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6?
I'm grateful for any help.

Alec

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Alec <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has
> ethernet port. Laptop is configured to connect to internet through
> LAN. When I install the WiFi card with driver, will it create
> conflict with ethernet port? How can I switch between wired and
> wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready equipped with WiFi have a
> little switch to choose between the two. Is there anything special I
> have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6? I'm grateful
> for any help.
>
> Alec


I'll be interested to see what the experts say because I have a laptop with
built-in ethernet port - and I may wish to go wireless at some future point.

My guess is that it's the network settings telling the laptop how to connect
to your LAN which you have to change - and that LAN-based Internet access
will then take care of itself.

On my machine, under Settings/Control Panel/Network Connections/Local Area
Network/Properties, there is a box saying "Connect using (the built-in
Ethernet port)". Maybe this becomes a drop-down menu if there's more than
one means of connection to choose from?
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I've got a Tosh laptop with a PCMCIA ethernet card installed in slot one,
when I got a wireless network at home I bought a wifi card and that is in
slot two. Running W2k I can plug into the network at home or any work
location using the wired card, or use the wifi if a wired connection is not
available, it always seems to sort itself out... you may be worrying
unduly.. but a good question none the less.




"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has ethernet
port.
> Laptop is configured to connect to internet through LAN. When I install
the
> WiFi card with driver, will it create conflict with ethernet port? How can
I
> switch between wired and wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready
> equipped with WiFi have a little switch to choose between the two. Is
there
> anything special I have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6?
> I'm grateful for any help.
>
> Alec
>
>

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:59:11 -0000, "Alec"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has ethernet port.
>Laptop is configured to connect to internet through LAN. When I install the
>WiFi card with driver, will it create conflict with ethernet port? How can I
>switch between wired and wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready
>equipped with WiFi have a little switch to choose between the two. Is there
>anything special I have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6?
>I'm grateful for any help.

Your PC will show that you have two network cards installed.

You can disable the old network card by right clicking and selecting
disable (in the Network Connections folder).

If both network cards are enabled, the internet traffic will be routed
down the card that has an internet connection active.

You can change the order of the routing using the "route" in the
command line.

"route print" for example will show you how your connection will be
routed based on it's destination.

Local network might be routed via one card, internet via another card
etc etc

You can use your second network port to share you connection with
another PC (like Microsoft's Internet Connection Sharing).

I have one PC here that has two network cards.
One network card is USB and the other network card is PCI internal.

The internet is plugged in via the USB network card and I have ICS
switched on for anything plugged into the PCI network card.
My IP phone is plugged into the PCI network card. This means the IP
phone is using the internet coming from the USB network card.

When I installed my PCMIA wireless network card, I disabled the built-in
Ethernet card. Seems to work OK for ICS between laptop and desktop PCs.

Bobby

"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has ethernet
port.
> Laptop is configured to connect to internet through LAN. When I install
the
> WiFi card with driver, will it create conflict with ethernet port? How can
I
> switch between wired and wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready
> equipped with WiFi have a little switch to choose between the two. Is
there
> anything special I have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6?
> I'm grateful for any help.
>
> Alec
>
>

Alec wrote:
> I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has
> ethernet port. Laptop is configured to connect to internet through
> LAN. When I install the WiFi card with driver, will it create
> conflict with ethernet port? How can I switch between wired and
> wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready equipped with WiFi have a
> little switch to choose between the two. Is there anything special I
> have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6? I'm grateful
> for any help.
>
> Alec

just stick it in and feed it the drivers. no conflicts should happen and
under 2000 or XP it'll seamlessly switch between the 2.
life is easier if both LAN card and wifi card can work on DHCP, though.
thw switch doesn't flick between the 2 - it just turns off the wifi card
which has the same effect.

ric

"Ric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Alec wrote:
> > I've just bought a 802.11b WiFi card for my laptop, which has
> > ethernet port. Laptop is configured to connect to internet through
> > LAN. When I install the WiFi card with driver, will it create
> > conflict with ethernet port? How can I switch between wired and
> > wireless? Laptops I've seen that come ready equipped with WiFi have a
> > little switch to choose between the two. Is there anything special I
> > have to do with settings, and how can I configure IE6? I'm grateful
> > for any help.
> >
> > Alec

Both my laptop, and the business one have this set up, and it seldom causes
any problems.


>
> just stick it in and feed it the drivers. no conflicts should happen and
> under 2000 or XP it'll seamlessly switch between the 2.
> life is easier if both LAN card and wifi card can work on DHCP, though.
> thw switch doesn't flick between the 2 - it just turns off the wifi card
> which has the same effect.
>
> ric
>
>