IP address conflict when i plug wired network into my centrino laptop

My home network is a mixture of wired and wireless. There are/will be
two desktops and a print server connected via CAT5 There is also an
IBM centrino laptop which i normally via its internal wireless
networking.

Internet connectivity is via a Netgear DG814 and wireless via a
Netgear WAP. #

Everything works well until i try to connect the laptop to the network
with a cable so that i can get a faster connection for copying files
and suchlike. As soon as i do this i get IP conflict messages.

What do i need to do to sort this out?

My suspicion (which could be entirely false) is that the laptop is
getting a single IP address and is seeing 'itself'. Is there a setting
somewhere to 'use fastest available connection and drop the rest' or
is it something else i need to do?

In article <(E-Mail Removed)> , "anthony
james" (E-Mail Removed) says...
> My home network is a mixture of wired and wireless. There are/will be
> two desktops and a print server connected via CAT5 There is also an
> IBM centrino laptop which i normally via its internal wireless
> networking.
>
> Internet connectivity is via a Netgear DG814 and wireless via a
> Netgear WAP. #
>
> Everything works well until i try to connect the laptop to the network
> with a cable so that i can get a faster connection for copying files
> and suchlike. As soon as i do this i get IP conflict messages.
>
> What do i need to do to sort this out?
>
> My suspicion (which could be entirely false) is that the laptop is
> getting a single IP address and is seeing 'itself'. Is there a setting
> somewhere to 'use fastest available connection and drop the rest' or
> is it something else i need to do?
>
The easiest way is probably to set up two hardware profiles - in one
disable the wireless and in the other disable the ethernet. Then just
boot to whichever you want to use.

Rob Morley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >
> The easiest way is probably to set up two hardware profiles - in one
> disable the wireless and in the other disable the ethernet. Then just
> boot to whichever you want to use.

My laptop takes a phenomenal amount of time to boot (more than a
corporate desktop) so that's not ideal. There's something called IBM
Access Connections that, if i can get it to work, should do what
you're suggesting without a reboot but is there no way that XP can
just 'deal with it' and swap connections?

In article <(E-Mail Removed)> , "anthony
james" (E-Mail Removed) says...
> Rob Morley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > >
> > The easiest way is probably to set up two hardware profiles - in one
> > disable the wireless and in the other disable the ethernet. Then just
> > boot to whichever you want to use.
>
> My laptop takes a phenomenal amount of time to boot (more than a
> corporate desktop) so that's not ideal. There's something called IBM
> Access Connections that, if i can get it to work, should do what
> you're suggesting without a reboot but is there no way that XP can
> just 'deal with it' and swap connections?
>
It wouldn't know what to do on its own - I suppose you could set up a
couple of batch files to manipulate the routing table, but I'm not sure
how you'd get it to work on a LAN because routing only controls WAN
connections.

Rob Morley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) et>...
>> There's something called IBM
> > Access Connections that, if i can get it to work, should do what
> > you're suggesting without a reboot but is there no way that XP can
> > just 'deal with it' and swap connections?
> >
> It wouldn't know what to do on its own - I suppose you could set up a
> couple of batch files to manipulate the routing table, but I'm not sure
> how you'd get it to work on a LAN because routing only controls WAN
> connections.

After downloading the newest version of Access Connections and an
updated wireless card driver i seem to have it working to an extent.
It looks like Access Connections will do what i want and when i plug
in the wired lan it seems to handle it OK.

however, something in Access Connections is confused since although
i've got a working wireless lan connection when it runs it says it
cant get an IP. Very odd.

In message <(E-Mail Removed)> , anthony
james <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>My home network is a mixture of wired and wireless. There are/will be
>two desktops and a print server connected via CAT5 There is also an
>IBM centrino laptop which i normally via its internal wireless
>networking.
>
>Internet connectivity is via a Netgear DG814 and wireless via a
>Netgear WAP. #
>
>Everything works well until i try to connect the laptop to the network
>with a cable so that i can get a faster connection for copying files
>and suchlike. As soon as i do this i get IP conflict messages.
>
>What do i need to do to sort this out?
>
>My suspicion (which could be entirely false) is that the laptop is
>getting a single IP address and is seeing 'itself'. Is there a setting
>somewhere to 'use fastest available connection and drop the rest' or
>is it something else i need to do?

Try ipconfig from the CMD prompt and see what IP addresses the two
adapters have.

Are both the wired and wireless DHCP allocated addresses? If they are
have a look at your router (or whatever's handling DHCP) and see what
entries it has for the MAC addresses of the two adapters.

If they're DHCP try doing an ipconfig /release_all and an ipconfig
/renew_all

If the addresses are static change them(!)

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